In sooth, I will not play until the bride and bridegroom come." "Now, thou art a saucy varlet to speak so to my crest," quoth the Bishop, frowning on Robin.

"Yet, I must needs bear with thee.

Look, Prior, hither cometh our cousin Sir Stephen, and his ladylove." And now, around the bend of the highroad, came others, riding upon horses.

The first of all was a tall, thin man, of knightly bearing, dressed all in black silk, with a black velvet cap upon his head, turned up with scarlet.

Robin looked, and had no doubt that this was Sir Stephen, both because of his knightly carriage and of his gray hairs.
Beside him rode a stout Saxon franklin, Ellen's father, Edward of Deirwold; behind those two came a litter borne by two horses, and therein was a maiden whom Robin knew must be Ellen.