For the way was difficult with swamps and thickets, so that we were glad enough to reach Chertsey by sundown.

I was for spending what little remained of my money at the inn, but this he would not hear of; so we took our supper, and then, as the night was fine, slept in a field of hay.

Sweet lying it was too, and when early next day we plunged into the clear river and refreshed out travel-stained limbs, we felt men again.
It was well on in the afternoon when we arrived at Richmond.

We should have been there sooner, but that my comrade was for ever calling a halt or turning aside on some errand of chivalry.

Mad enough I thought some of them, but then he never asked me what I thought; and if ever I hung back, he did what he needed without me.