All of them, even those who were to remain on the Verna, were still following their master.

As for him, absorbed in thought he had become entirely oblivious to what was going on, and did not even perceive the noisy enthusiasm which his passage aroused in the numerous villages along the Tiber.
At Borgo San-Sepolcro he received a real ovation without even then coming to himself; but when they had some time quitted the town, he seemed suddenly to awake, and asked his companion if they ought not soon to arrive there.[5] The first evening at Monte Casale was marked by a miracle.

Francis healed a friar who was possessed.[6] The next morning, having decided to pass several days in this hermitage, he sent the brothers back to the Verna, and with them Count Orlando's horse.
In one of the villages through which they had passed the day before a woman had been lying several days between death and life unable to give birth to her child.

Those about her had only learned of the passage of the saint through their village when he was too far distant to be overtaken.

We may judge of the joy of these poor people when the rumor was spread that he was about to return.