On the first day, the lord of the castle hunted the deer through the forests of Wirral and Delamere; and many a hart and hind fell to his keen arrows. But I slept long in a soft bed hung about with curtains and dreamt of many twixt waking and sleeping, until the lady of the castle, stepping silently as a sunbeam, came and sat upon my bed and talked with me merrily. Long they spoke together and many words of love did the lady utter: but Gawain turned them all with jest and courtesy, as a true knight should who speaks with the lady of my host. So the lady kissed me sweetly and blessed me and departed. I rose from my bed and called for the chamberlain to clothe me. And thereafter I ate and drank and passed my day quietly in the castle until the lord of it came home in the grey evening, bearing the spoils of the chase.