
In spite of his doubts he sets out beside her, hoping this time will be different. He is afraid of failing again, but knows Igraine should not be out on her own. He is a disgraced knight, having failed in his charge to protect some other girls.

On her way to the giant she meets the Sorrowful Knight of the Mount of Tears. The most logical choice is for the brother (being the better magician) to stay and defend the castle and Igraine to go get the hairs. Elizabeth Bowen (18991973) The major men That is different. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my lifethe first twenty years of ithad about them something semi-fictitious. The parents know how to reverse the swine spell, but they are out of the red giant hairs, so someone needs to go get them. No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. That same day the next door castle is taken over by an evil sorcerer and his knight. Her parents make a slight mistake with a spell and accidentally turn themselves into pigs. Igraine could be good, but she's rather be a knight! Who wants to be inside reading all day when you could be fighting the bad men? Her parents will not let her set out as a 10 year old knight errant, so she's stuck.


Now things start to look up because Igraine can give the hairs to her piggy parents. The Sorrowful Knight agrees to take Igraine back home to Pimpernel castle. Her older brother is a magician in training, and a good one at that. The giant takes Igraine to a tower on the mountain of tears and they find the Sorrowful Knight. Igraine is the daughter of two magicians.
