He will have benefited by the absence of the household to make good his escape.
"Beshrew me, but he is a crafty knave.

Who would have thought it of him ?" "When men turn heretic they seem to be indued with all the cunning of the devil!" cried Julian hotly.

"But let us not dally here; let us run within and strive to seek and to find him.

It may be he will think he may hide himself the better in some nook or corner of the house, since he be well known all around; and the good prior said somewhat of having kept a watch upon him.

But I trow he cannot hide so well but what we shall find him.