"Recommended to me as he is, I would have seen that he lacked nothing, but was provided with all necessaries for his position.

I will in the future take care that in all things he is on a par with his companions." He touched a bell on the table, and a servitor entered.
"Tell Richard de Deauville to come here," he said.
A minute later the hangings at the door were pushed aside, and a lad about a year older than Gervaise appeared, and, bowing deeply to the knight, stood in a respectful attitude, awaiting his orders.
"Deauville, take this youth, Gervaise Tresham to your room.

He is appointed one of the pages of the grand master.

He is English, but he speaks French as well as you do, having lived in France for some years.
Take him to your apartment and treat him kindly and well, seeing that he is a stranger and new to all here.

Tomorrow he will go to the palace." Gervaise bowed deeply to the two knights, and then followed the page.
"I suppose you arrived in that ship which came in today," the latter said, as soon as they had left the room.