Men seemed not to like the cheerful noise of my honest house-carles, who jested and laughed as they would have done in the hall of Ina, who loved to see and hear that his men were merry.

We should have thought that there was something wrong if there had not been plenty of noise at the end of the long tables below the salt.
Now, I will not say that there was not something very pleasant in sitting here at the side of the king as the most honoured guest next to my foster father, but there was a sadness at the back of it all in the knowledge that it was likely that from henceforth our ways must needs go apart more or less, and that I might see him only from time to time.

For I was Ina's man, and a Saxon, and it could not be supposed that I should be welcome here.

I knew that I must go back to my place, and he must bide in his that he had found again, and so there was the sorrow of parting to spoil what might else have made me a trifle over proud.
Gerent did not stay long at the feast, nor did the ladies who were present, and Owen and I stayed for but a little while after they had gone.

Then we were taken in all state to the room where we should sleep, and so for the first time I was housed within stone walls.