With this I returned, for it was clear that if we had to mingle in this business it would be necessary to have a mode of escape.
Of the rest you are aware.

We saw the knights coming out of the castle, with that portly baron, their lord, at their head.

We saw the block and the headsman upon the platform, and were scarcely surprised when you were led out, a prisoner, from the gates.

We judged that what did happen would ensue.

Seeing that the confusion wrought by a sudden attack from men perched up aloft as we were, commanding the courtyard, and being each of us able to hit a silver mark at the distance of one hundred yards, would be great indeed, we judged that you might be able to slip away unobserved, and were sure that your quick wit would seize any opportunity which might offer.