He halted and waited on her bidding.
She gazed speechless at the horse whereon sat her brother with a clouted scalp.
"What ails you, Frenchman ?" said Aelward.

"It is but a half-grown girl of my father's begetting." "I have vowed not to pass that bridge till yonder lady bids me." "Then for the pity of Christ bid him, sister.

He and I are warm with play and yearn for a flagon." In this manner did Jehan first enter the house of Galland, whence in the next cowslip-time he carried a bride to Highstead.
The months passed smoothly in the house on the knoll above the fat fen pastures.

Jehan forsook his woodcraft for the work of byre and furrow and sheepfold, and the yield of his lands grew under his wardenship.

He brought heavy French cattle to improve the little native breed, and made a garden of fruit trees where once had been only bent and sedge.