Let me tell you what I think." "The matter is in your hands altogether, my King." "As you have set it there," he said, smiling gently.

"Now all seems plain to me, and I will say that this is even what I thought you would wish to do.

How shall it be if we bid Erpwald, for the deed of his father, to build a church in Eastdean and there to keep a priest, that all men shall know how that the martyr is honoured, and the land be the better for his death ?" Nought better than this could be, as I thought, and I told the king so.
"Why, then," he said, "that is well.

I shall have pleased both parties, as I hope.

I know you will meet him in all friendliness." Then he let me go, and it was with a light heart that I parted from him.