When Cuthbert told him that the daughter of his old friend was at a convent but a day's ride distant, and that he sought protection for her, Sir Baldwin instantly offered her hospitality.
"I will," he said, "send my good wife to fetch her.

Some here know your presence, and it would be better therefore that she did not arrive for some days, as her coming will then seem to be unconnected with yourself.
My wife and I will, a week hence, give out that we are going to fetch a cousin of my wife's to stay here with her; and when we return no suspicion will be excited that she is other than she seems.

Should it be otherwise, I need not say that Sir Baldwin of Bethune will defend his castle against any of the minions of Prince John.

But I have no fear that her presence here will be discovered.

What think you of doing in the meantime ?" "I am thinking," Cuthbert said, "of going east.