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So that she seemed already well known to me , and why this was I could not say , and at times it troubled me as puzzling things will . But , all the same , I loved to find myself so puzzled . Thus , by the time we came over the great spur of the Downs that ends in Beachy Head , and looked over all Pevensea level to the Penhurst woods and hills beyond , I and Uldra were very good friends , and Relf was pleased that it should be so , and rode between us in high content . It was midday when we passed the last hill of the Downs where the mighty giant lies like a shadow on the grass by Wilmington ; then we saw the gray castle where Wulfnoth bided , away to our right ; and then along the steep ridge inland and down to Boreham , where I must tell the maiden of the great sea wave , and how Olaf saved me . And so we came to Penhurst in its valley among the trees , and the ride was over . Now there is no need to say what welcome was at that house , whether for its lord , or for the warrior who had been nursed back to life there , or for the new-come homeless maiden . Relf was not wrong when he told her that she should be as a daughter in the house .