We do but find a house for the queen." So we went on to the central green amid the huts, and there stood and looked round, while Phelim and Fergus deliberated for a time.
It seemed that the pigs had one empty hut, and the fowls another.
The largest was the chapel, and so there was not one vacant.

I think that they each wished for the honour of turning out for us.
"Father Phelim," I said at last, for Bertric waxed impatient, "let one good brother leave his cell for that of another, leaving it free for the queen, and then we can shift for ourselves.

We do not at all mind sleeping in the open, for so we have fared for the last week and more." But they would not have that, and in the end Phelim himself led Gerda with much pride to his own cell and handed it over to her, while another brother left his cell to us three, it being a large one, which, indeed, is not saying much for the rest.

We were likely to be warm enough in it; but the cells were clean and dry, each with a bed of heather and a stone table and stool, and some little store of rough crockery and the like household things.

There were blankets, too, and rugs for hanging across the doors, which seemed in some abundance.