What troubled Allin-a-Dale the second time he crosses paths with Robin Hood? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

The second time Allen-a-Dale crossed Robin Hood's path, he was troubled because the girl Allen a Dale loves was taken away from him by her father and given for marriage to an Old Knight.

Explanation:

'The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood' is a novel written by Howard Pyle. The novel is about the titular character and the adventures he ventures along his journey.

Allan a Dale is one of the characters that Robin Hood crosses paths with. Allan a Dale is a young, twenty-year-old man. When Allan a Dale met Robin Hood the second time, he was troubled because the maiden whom he loves was taken away from him. After her father came to know about their relationship, he took her away and gave her hand into a marriage to an Old Knight.

Evidence:

"Next he told how her father had discovered what was a-doing, and had taken her away from him so that he never saw her again, and his heart was sometimes like to break; how this morn, only one short month and a half from the time that he had seen her last, he had heard and knew it to be so, that she was to marry old Sir Stephen of Trent, two days hence, for Ellen's father thought it would be a grand thing to have his daughter marry so high, albeit she wished it not; nor was it wonder that a knight should wish to marry his own sweet love, who was the most beautiful maiden in all the world."