Many things we spoke of, as concerning the mother of the Maid--how wise she was, yet in a kind of amazement, and not free from fear, wherefore she prayed constantly for her child.
Moreover Elliot told me that the jackanapes was now hers of right, for that the woman, its owner, had been at Puy, but without her man, and had sold it to her, as to a good mistress, yet with tears at parting.

This news was none of the gladdest to me, for still I feared that tidings of us might come to Brother Thomas.

Howbeit, at last, with a light heart, though I was leaving Elliot, I went back to the castle.

There Aymar de Puiseux, meeting me, made me the best countenance, and gave me a right good horse, that I named Capdorat after him, by his good will.

And for my armour, which must needs be light, they gave me a maillet--a coat of slender mail, which did not gall my old wound.