Hearing from the separation from his beloved, the knight sends the girl a letter hidden among the feathers of a swan. The woman who was left behind with the weight of her sins, engaged to a man she did not love, is now freed from her life and trapped in their love. Using the swan as a messenger they continue to communicate. Just like their malnourished love for each other, which blooms in brief conversations after a period of abandonment. The swan is hungry so he can carry the message to the other who feeds him briefly. This remains because it is not the man himself that the lady loves, but rather the charm of a secret love and the fame that the knight brings. Since fame is the object that fuels their affections, it is appropriate that the object of their affections is also fueled by fame. As the son learns about his heritage, he is not driven to seek out his beloved father and mother, but rather seeks fame, becoming a knight. In the end the two knights, father and son, reunite in a joust and neither knows their mutual bond. Brought together not through shared love but by their longing