Thitherward

No more he spake, / But thitherward forthright his ready way did make.

They saw a maid who thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.

The poor woman, who was well aware with such incumbrances she could do nothing with visitors of their rank, eagerly presented a letter from the castle, which had been waiting almost a week, and their horses' heads were in a few minutes turned thitherward, a boy being dispatched from the farm by a near road, to announce their arrival.