But why does he wear yon strange dress ?" "He has taken vows on him, and is a hermit," the thane said; but I did not know what he meant at the time.
It was some Saxon way, I supposed, and cared not to ask more.
So it came to pass that I met one of the two most wonderful men in England, and I was to see the other on the morrow.

Yet I had no thought that I should care to stay in the land, for it seemed certain from what Odda told me that peace would be made, and peace was not my business nor that of my men.
So in a way I was sorry that the war was at an end, seeing that we came for fighting and should have none.
Then came a thought to me that made me laugh at myself.

I was glad, after all, that we were not going sword foremost into Exeter town, because of the Lady Thora, who was there.

I suppose it would not have been reasonable had I not had that much thought for the brave maiden whom I had helped out of danger once..