I pray you enter and join us." "I will do so with pleasure, Signor Vrados, if you will also extend your hospitality to my friend Sir Gervaise Tresham." "Most gladly," the merchant said.

"I pray him to enter." The two knights passed through the gate in the wall.

All rose to their feet as they went up to the carpet, and greeted Ralph with a warmth which showed that he was a favourite.

He introduced Gervaise to them.
"I wonder that I do not know your face, Sir Knight," the merchant's wife said.

"I thought I knew all the knights of the Order by sight, from seeing them either at the public ceremonies, or observing them pass in the streets." "For the last nine months Sir Gervaise has been an anchorite.