But Mary Stopperton could not inform her.

They had ended up in the chapel of Sir Thomas More.

He, too, had "given up things," including his head.

Though Mary Stopperton, siding with Father Morris, was convinced he had now got it back, and that with the remainder of his bones it rested in the tomb before them.
There, the little pew-opener had left her, having to show the early-comers to their seats; and Joan had found an out-of-the-way pew from where she could command a view of the whole church.

They were chiefly poor folk, the congregation; with here and there a sprinkling of faded gentility.