Why, the most of my folk are Christian enough.

And if a man of the Britons did not honour his old faith it would be as strange as if I honoured not that of my fathers.

I have no quarrel with the faith of any man, either king or thrall." "Then I will be your forester, Thane, for such time as I may, and I thank you." "Nay, but the thanks are all on my side," answered my father.

"Now I shall know that the boy will have one with whom he may live all day in the woods if he will, and I shall be content." So Owen bided with us, half as honoured guest and half as forester, and as time went on he was well loved by all who knew him, for he was ever the same to each man about the place.

As for me, it was the best day that could have dawned when he found me in the woods as a lost child.