He eyed his handiwork with considerable satisfaction.
"That is better.

It would be something gloomy to be shut up here without light enough to study by; but with books and food one might spend many a week here and not be overwhelmed with dullness.

The place is something straight, to be sure, and there is bare room for a tall man to stand upright." Edred drew himself to his full height, and found that his head did not quite reach the beams which formed the ceiling.
"I trow Brother Emmanuel could just stand; he is not greatly taller than I.And he is marvellous contented with a very little, and has been used to passing days and weeks in the solitude of his cell.
Sure this would not be to him an evil place.

If he had but a book or two and the needful food, he would be vastly content.
"I wonder if he can be in any sort of peril.

I liked not the looks or the words of you malicious monk.