The chamber was all darkling, lit only by a thread of light that came through the closed shutters of wood, and fell on her pale face.

She was clad in a light jaseran of mail, because of her wound, and was plainly eager to be gone and about her business, that is, to meet the English in open field.
"Leslie, my friend," she said, in her sweet voice, "there were many brave men in the fight yesterday, but, in God's name, none did a braver deed than thou! Nay, speak not," she said, as I opened my lips to thank her, "for the leech that tended thee last night forbids it, on peril of thy very life.

So I have brought thee here a sheet of fair paper, and a pen and horn of ink, that thou, being a clerk, mayst write what thou hast to say.

Alas! such converse is not for me, who know not A from his brother B.

But the saints who helped thee have rewarded thee beyond all expectation.