Thus there would be no fighting in the street when we came out.
So it was, for when the horses were ready, the stablemen of the house threw open the great gates of the courtyard, which was beside the house, as it happened, and we rode out quietly, but with weapons ready, and they did but shrink together and stare when they saw us.

There were about thirty of them in all.
Now I would not give Edric any reason to blame me to Eadmund, and so I wheeled my men to the right, away from the bridge and along the great road towards London, and letting them go on slowly, I called to a man who stood foremost.
"This is a sorry business," I said; "but your leader had no right to smite my man, and one waxes hasty when a man behaves thus.

He was an unmannerly messenger." "Aye, lord, he was," the men said.
"Well, then, tell your earl that I have even now left the town, and that being ready to do so I came not with you; and say how it was that this man was slain, and that I am sorry therefor." "We will tell him," they said.
So I spurred my horse and rode after my company, knowing that it would be hard for Edric to know the rights of the matter.

The men would certainly not wonder at the slaying of Godric, seeing how he had behaved.

I thought that Eadmund would never hear of this.
I believe that I escaped very narrowly, and also that the silver penny was the cause thereof.