But of this I was sure now, that if fortune went with me presently, I would surely seek Ailwin and tell him that I must be free, and so would seek Uldra, and ask her to share what I might have to give her, if a home should be mine again.

I had thought much of this brave, quiet maiden while I was chafing at doing nought in Wulfnoth's farmstead, though I would not have stayed at Penhurst.
Now came a time when the victory was ours, and it seemed that at last the strong hand had come.

For men would follow Eadmund, and he had the power of making them fight as he would.

Yet there was nothing that would keep our levies together.

Had they done so we had surely conquered, but it was ever the same.