`` yet methinks i stray very far from my home and folk , and many very evil things have fallen upon me in the way , whereof nought but a cloud hangs upon my memory -- nay , whence i am or whither i go i know not '' -- and she wept a fresh , but that man spake , saying : '' then behold , i will call thee niniel , or little one of tears , '' and thereat she raised her face towards his , and it was very sweet though marred with weeping , and she said with a look of wonderment : '' nay , not niniel , not niniel . ''