I had come to think very much of what the steadfast eyes of the brave maiden would tell me as I watched her face.
But that evening came Wulfnoth and Godwine, and they had made a plan for themselves which might help me to reach Eadmund when my freedom came.

They had manors on the Severn, at Berkeley, and the earl would go there to save them if possible from plunder.

At least, that is what he told me and Olaf.

Whether he had any other deeper plan I cannot say.

It seemed afterwards as if that might be so.
They brought back some strange news, too, at which both Olaf and I wondered.