"Your men were all mounted and in readiness, or they could not have arrived here so soon.

You must have been close at hand, and only holding off in order that you might boast of having come to my relief." Harry, indignant at these words, turned on heel without deigning to give an answer to the angry man, and at once rode back to his own quarters.
Two hours later Prince Rupert rode up.

The firing had been reported, and Prince Rupert had ridden with a body of horse to Chalcombe.

Here he had heard Sir Ralph Willoughby's version of the story, and had requested that officer to ride with him to Harry's quarters.

The prince, with several of his principal officers, alighted at the inn, outside which Harry received him.