They called their dogs and sallied forth over the fields towards the shady, well-fringed river banks, and Brother Emmanuel was left alone with his second pupil, Edred, whose eyes were still fixed upon the black lettering of the great Bible open at the last passage under discussion.
The monk bent an earnest glance upon the boy's face.

He saw that an argument which had completely satisfied the other two had not satisfied this other keener mind.

But he asked no questions, leaving the boy to speak or not as he chose.

These were days in which too much questioning was a dangerous thing.

Many men felt as though they were treading the crust of a volcano, and that a single unwary step might plunge them headlong into the burning gulf.
When even such a man as Bishop Peacock had been threatened with the stake, and sent into perpetual imprisonment, even after having "recanted" his errors, no wonder that all men holding broad or enlightened opinions trembled for themselves.