Wait for it in patience, and then we shall meet again.

There will be no comrade like you for me till then, but I shall know I have one at least who will welcome me presently if you go now." He made it light for me; but it was a hard parting, and I will say no more of it.

The ship left the little Frisian port whence we sailed, and he stood on the shore and watched us until I could see him no more; then for a time a loneliness fell on me which made me a poor companion for the gay Frankish nobles with whom I was to go to East Anglia.
Not that it mattered much after an hour or so, when we met the waves of the open sea; for they were no sort of companion to any one, even to themselves, and the seamen had their laugh at them.
But for myself, not being troubled with the sickness, the sea worked wonders.

For the first time for many a long month the ague fit had less hold on me when its time came next day.

Then a Frisian sailor saw that I had the illness he knew so well and over well, and would have me take some bitter draught he made for me out of willow bark, saying that Carl's leeches knew somewhat less than nothing concerning ague.