The boys were left below, to look after the cattle.
"Nothing can be done tonight," Philip said to some of the men.

"The cattle will come to no harm and, as the boys cannot keep them from breaking down the shrubs, they had best leave them alone, or they will run the risk of getting hurt.

The boys will do more good by taking charge of the more valuable horses, as they come in, and fastening them up to the rings round the wall here.

The cart horses must go in with the cattle." Several gentlemen, with their wives and families, came in among the fugitives.

Their houses were not in a condition to withstand a siege, and it had long been settled that they should come into the chateau, if danger threatened.