"He is not of our faith, and I do not know if he may come.
"If he will, he may," answered the hermit kindly.

"He can be no evil heathen, seeing that he is your friend." So, not wishing to seem ungracious, I followed them into the chapel, which was stone built after the same manner as the cells, but with a ridge roof instead of the rounded top, and much larger, being about fifteen feet long and ten wide.

Over the door was a cross of white stones set in the wall, and at the eastern end was a cross also, and an altar, on which were candles of wax, at which I wondered, seeing them in this place.

Round the walls ran a stone slab as bench, but I was the only one who used it.

The others knelt, facing eastward, and I, at a sign from Bertric, sat by the door, wondering what I should see and hear.
There was enough for me to wonder at.