Yet come out, I do pray you.
It gives me the cold terror to see you so overbold." Then came Father Selred along the bank, and the man begged him to bid me leave the water; and so we both laughed at him, until the franklin waxed cross and went his way, saying that I was a fool for not biding in the shoal water up yonder by the great tree.

I could walk across there waist deep, he said, grumbling.
Then I came out, and the father told me that the king would be here anon.

We walked to and fro waiting for him, and presently he came with Hilda's father, Sighard, in attendance.

The four of us sat down on the river bank, under the great tree of which the franklin had spoken, and watched the trout in the shallows till Ethelbert lay back with his arms under his head, and said that he was tired with the ride and would sleep.
He closed his eyes, and we went on talking in low voices for an hour or so while he slept.

And then the horns rang from the distant camp to tell us that the evening meal was spread in the great pavilion.