We must trust to our ingenuity in smuggling you out.

After that, it is upon your own strength and shrewdness that you must rely for an escape from any snares that may be laid for you.

You will see, then, that at least another three or four days are needed before you can set forth.

Your countrymen are so far away that a matter of a few days will make but little difference.

They will in any case be delayed for a long time at Marseilles before they embark; and whether you leave now or a month hence, you would be equally in time to join them before their embarkation--that is, supposing that you make your way through the snares which beset you." Cuthbert saw the justice of the reasoning, and it was another week before he announced himself as feeling absolutely restored to strength again, and capable of bearing as much exertion as he could have done before his attack.
A long consultation was held with the prior and a monk who had acted as his leech, as to the best plan of getting Cuthbert beyond the walls of the city.