ok here's my theory: Einar will try to elope with the girl and the master and/or the minions are going to try to kill him. And Thorfinn gets attached to Einar and decides to save him.... something like that :P
What has happened to Thorfinn? The old him would never take bowing his head to a person like that, it seems all fight has truly gone out of him. Einar seems to have found love though :3
I like the new development. A character is not a godlike entity that is invincible. A character must walk through different lifestyles before he or she can mature into something epic.