Save some such savage work as that which Sighard would set on foot, there was naught else to be planned.
But I minded the voice and pleading look of that mother who spoke with me in the garden at Thetford, and I had a mind to stay and see this thing to an end, for it was all that I might do.

Maybe I could find the body of her son and see it brought back to her.
"I bide here," I said; and Selred stepped to my side without a word.
"I also," said Sighard; "I have words to say yet before I die." They tried to persuade us, but in vain, and at last they left the matter.

In silence they went each to his place, and took the arms and things which were of value, and so passed down the passage with Witred at their head, and I heard one or two threaten the honest thane with death if he played them false.

But he did not answer them, for he knew that they spoke wildly as yet in the new terror which had broken their sleep.
After that we went back to the council chamber and sat down.

The worst strain was past with their going, as it seemed to me, and the morning would tell what was to be.
"We will stay here," said Selred.