That she could do, and would have done.
"Then the Danes came, and one day Elfric sent word that he was going to Normandy.

Those two sisters would go home, and so the abbess sent me with them, thinking that thus her sister's plan for me would be best carried out.

For she was told by Elfric that you were in charge of the party, saying the sisters would be safe in your care.

Elfric might get me a place in the queen's new household; and if not--if you knew me not nor cared for me--there was always the convent." "So all that plan came out thus--and it is well," I said.

"But why would you not come to Penhurst at first ?" She laughed lightly, answering: "Can you not guess?
Relf saw, and set things right.