Now, what am I to do in that matter?
Who would have thought that he so coveted my lands that he would have slain me and Edith to possess himself of them?
His own lands a thrice as broad as mine, though men say that he has dipped deeply into them and owes much money to the Jews.

He is powerful and has many friends, and although Earl Talbot would stand by me, yet the unsupported word of an apprentice boy were but poor evidence on which to charge a powerful baron of such a crime as this.

It were best, methinks, to say nought about it, but to bury the thought in my own heart.

Nevertheless, I will not fail to take the precaution which the lad advised, and to let Sir James know that there are some who have knowledge of his handiwork.

I hear he crosses the seas tomorrow to join the army, and it may be long ere he return.