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Sir Sigefrith gives his opinion

Sir Sigefrith glanced out the window as he strode into the King's study.

Sir Sigefrith glanced out the window as he strode into the King’s study. From the height of this tower, one could see over the walls and down the long, slow slope to the river.

On the horizon far beyond, the peak of Thorhold was wrapped in a rosy mist like a cloak of wool, but the twilight fell upon the naked valley in a crystalline glare that promised a night of bitter cold. Sigefrith had been lord long enough to have observed that the cold made the peasant’s hunger all the harder to bear.

Aengus asks for refuge

Malcolm lolled his head drowsily and pretended to listen to Caedwulf's chatter.

Malcolm lolled his head drowsily and pretended to listen to Caedwulf’s chatter. He would much rather have spent the evening with Brede, but Brede was apparently holed away somewhere with Estrid.

Hilda and Estrid had, at least, gone up to the nursery “to talk”, but Malcolm suspected that if he went up now he would find Hilda alone with some excuse for Estrid’s absence. He might have done it, too, just for the fun of seeing her squirm, but he was beginning to believe that Hilda knew he knew, and so she might not squirm so much as counter-attack. She knew he hadn’t really been too sick to go to Mass last All Saints Day…

Eadgith becomes a confidante

Eadgith awoke in a panic.

Eadgith awoke in a panic. It wasn’t a dream—someone was trying to climb into bed with her—someone who smelled like wine—and she wasn’t even in her bed—she didn’t know where she was—

She shrieked and struggled, and the intruder fell onto the floor with an inglorious thump, followed by a loud “Damn!” But it was a woman’s voice.

Sigefrith hears of more bad news

'Did you hear that?'

Sigefrith stopped in mid-sentence. “Did you hear that?” he asked Alred.

“What?”

Egelric is followed across the downs

Egelric shoved his hands into his cloak and squinted into the wind.

Egelric shoved his hands into his cloak and squinted into the wind. In his hurry to be off, he hadn’t thought that the wind would be all the stronger upon the downs. But the sliver of moon offered too little light to allow him to turn into the woods now, without a torch, and so he could only stay close to the forest’s edge and hurry on.

He had come halfway across the downs with a growing feeling that he was being watched by other eyes than the sheep’s, and finally he stopped and turned boldly to look behind him. Whoever it was would now know that he knew.

Alwy worries about his pigs

Gunnilda only glanced up for a moment when she saw that it was just Alwy coming in.

Gunnilda only glanced up for a moment when she saw that it was just Alwy coming in, so she was shaken when she heard Egelric’s deep voice coming in behind him.

“I haven’t one any longer,” Egelric was saying. “I gave most of those things to Alfric when he took my house. Good afternoon, Gunnilda.”

Brede reads his letter and gets a shock

Estrid gasped and leapt up from the bench as the door flew open--but it was only Brede.

Estrid gasped and leapt up from the bench as the door flew open—but it was only Brede.

After a moment of similar surprise, he frowned at her and closed the door.

Brede gets a shock and a letter

Brede's heart sank into his stomach as a determined knock fell on his door.

Brede’s heart sank into his stomach as a determined knock fell on his door. “She’s not worth it!” that nagging inner voice squealed again.

Estrid leapt up from his lap and pulled the top of her gown closed, her eyes wide with panic.

Sigefrith has a visitor

Sigefrith hurried into the hall, rubbing his hands together briskly as he went.

Sigefrith hurried into the hall, rubbing his hands together briskly as he went—partly from the cold and partly from the excitement.

From the height of the scaffolding where he had been standing with Egelric, he had seen a black-kilted man ride in on a black horse whose nose was surely uglier than any horse’s nose had a right to be, if Sigefrith knew the breed.

Edris sees a catastrophe

Edris found the weight of an extra blanket upon her when she woke.

Edris found the weight of an extra blanket upon her when she woke, and she saw that the fire had been built up and was burning brightly. She smiled to herself and stretched luxuriously. A servant might have taken it upon himself to build up the fire, but only Cenwulf would have put an extra blanket on her.

She swung her legs out of the bed and gasped as her feet hit the floor. It was no wonder he had! It was dreadfully cold for early October. Indeed, the view across the court was obscured by a film of frost on the windows.

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