One had gone back, and I did not blame him.
Leof sat in the little porch, and so we six went into the church together.

The bishop sat where I had left him, but he raised his head when we came up the aisle.
"Nay, my sons," he said, "you must fly.

Maybe these men will respect an old man like myself and lonely." Then I said: "Father, we would have you say mass for us ere the light comes again." Now it wanted about an hour to midnight.
"Is there yet time ?" he said.
Then I answered that I thought we might wait in peace for so long, and he, knowing nothing of the nearness of the Danes, consented.

So we bided there in the aisle benches to wait till midnight was past, and soon one or two of the men slept quietly.
Now, when it may have been almost midnight, and the time for mass would soon be come, the bishop, who had been so still that I thought he slept, lifted his head and looked towards the altar.

And at the same time my dog whined a little beside me.
Then Humbert the Bishop rose up and held out both his hands as to one whom he would greet, and spoke softly.
"Aye, Eadmund, I am coming.