A Story Based on a Painting

Introduction
The End of the Quest by Sir Frank Dicksee features a man with a sword kneeling before his lady love. She is dressed in long, wine colored robes and seems barely alive. Painted in 1921, the time period seems to be medieval.
First paragraph
The woman in the painting is an ordinary poor peasant. She was madly in love with a handsome, young, rich townsman who later went to war. He was too loyal to his king.…