2/57 Get me the stout grey monsters like Tuesday se'ennight." The room was empty now save for two figures both wearing the habit of the religious. Near the bed sat a man in the full black robe and hood of the monks of Cluny. He warmed plump hands at the brazier and seemed at ease and at home. By the door stood a different figure in the shabby clothes of a parish priest, a curate from the kirk of St.Martin's who had been a scandalised spectator of the rat hunt. |