Bidding a hearty adieu to Cnut, and with thanks to the franklin who had aided them, they set forward on their journey.

By morning they had reached the convent, and here the two girls were left, and Cuthbert continued his journey.

He left his charge at a convent a day's ride distant from the castle of Sir Baldwin, as he wished to consult the knight first as to the best way of her entering the castle without exciting talk or suspicion.
Sir Baldwin received him with joy.

He had heard something of his doings, and the news of the siege of Evesham had been noised abroad.

He told him that he was in communication with many other barons, and that ere long they hoped to rise against the tyranny of Prince John, but that at present they were powerless, as many, hoping that King Richard would return ere long, shrank from involving the country in a civil war.