I will tell you, Thane, here and alone, that there are foes in my home for whose passing, in one way or another, I must needs wait.

Even now I was on my way to Bosham, where they tell me are Western monks with whom I might bide for a time, if not altogether.

I was lost in the forest last night." Now my father saw that some heavy sorrow of no common sort lay beneath the quiet words of the man before him, and he forbore to ask him more.

Also, he deemed that in the Welsh land he would surely rank as a thane, for his ways and words bespoke more than his dress would tell.

Therefore he said: "Wait here with us for a while at least.