The last was sent when he had begun what he thought fit to do at Tours, saying, 'I make war, but the cause is righteous.

Never misjudge me, Jehane.' There were many reasons why she should not answer this.
Returning to his deeds at Poietiers, I pick up the story from the Abbot Milo, whom he found there.

The Count, you may judge, kept his own counsel.

Milo was his confessor, but at this time Richard was not in a confessing humour; therefore Milo had to gather scandal as he could.
There was very little difficulty about this.

'In the city of Tours,' he writes, 'in those middle days of Advent, it appears that rumour, still gadding, was adrift with names almost too high for the writing.