The bell was that of the 'faire chappell' on the green outside the gatehouse, and it was calling to matins.

Presently the priest crossed the green to a little side-door in the chancel, and then from the gateway of the mansion emerged the household, the tall man whom Roger had seen with his sister on the previous night, on his arm being a portly dame, and, running beside the pair, two little girls and a boy.
These all entered the chapel, and the bell having ceased and the environs become clear, the sailor crept out from his hiding.
He sauntered towards the chapel, the opening words of the service being audible within.

While standing by the porch he saw a belated servitor approaching from the kitchen-court to attend the service also.

Roger carelessly accosted him, and asked, as an idle wanderer, the name of the family he had just seen cross over from the mansion.
'Od zounds! if ye modden be a stranger here in very truth, goodman.

That wer Sir John and his dame, and his children Elizabeth, Mary, and John.' 'I be from foreign parts.