If I mistake not, you have been trying to wriggle out of these bonds." He set his hand under some of the lashings and pulled them without uncovering me much, though it would not have mattered if he had done so, as it was very dark in here.
As I knew only too well, they were fast as ever, and he said: "Well, we can tie a knot fairly.

Presently we will loosen you a bit--in the morning maybe." He went and closed the door, and I fell to work again.

He would leave me now for a while.
There was a long talk from ship to shore before the gangplank was run out, and presently Thorgils spoke to Evan, seemingly close to the cabin door: "Here's a bit of luck for your princess," he said.

"Her father is up in the camp yonder, with his guards behind him.

Maybe there is trouble with the Tenby Danefolk, or going to be some.