When the sun is up all will be well; but be cautious in the first chill of the dawn." The brothers went towards their companion, and rearranged the collar of his riding cloak so as still more to conceal his face.
The hands of the younger lad were trembling somewhat; there was a quivering of the muscles of the face which betokened some repressed emotion.

The muffled rider did not speak or make much movement.

He obeyed the injunction of the lady of Chad to the letter.
Sir Oliver now appeared, and lifted his wife upon her palfrey.

He gave a look to see that his sons were mounted, and his servants standing ready to follow his example when he sprang to the saddle.
Then his charger was led up, and he mounted and gave the word, and the little cavalcade moved out through the gate and into the still, dim forest track, watched intently by more than one pair of keen, sharp, suspicious eyes.
"I trust when I come back," remarked the knight to his lady, "that yon spies will have grown weary of their bootless watch, and will have taken themselves off.

It is but the malice and suspicion of the Lord of Mortimer which causes the prior to act so.