Use all discretion and heed, and fare thee well.

I shall reach the coast tonight, and do my business with all speed, and be in the saddle again with the light of dawn, so thou mayest look to see us again before noon." And with a tender farewell to his wife, the knight mounted and rode away with his gallant little train; and the lady looked after him from the window, and said to Edred, who quickly came to her to learn more, if he could, of the words he had recently heard: "Now may the blessed saints and our Lord Himself be with him! for no braver and truer gentleman lives in the length and breadth of this land.

There be few, indeed, who would imperil their own safety rather than yield up one who is after all little more than a stranger.

Heaven send that he repent not this deed! May God be with him in all his ways!" "My mother," said Edred cautiously, "is it that Brother Emmanuel is in sore peril?
He is so devout and faithful a son of the Church that it is hard to credit it." "In sooth, my son, these be matters hard to be understood; but thy father truly holds that he were safer out of this country and out of reach of the Prior of Chadwater and the Lord of Mortimer.

Men's words can be turned and twisted till the best may be accused of heresy; and again, if a monk has fallen beneath the wrath of his superior, no man may tell what would befall were he to return to the power of his spiritual father.