Soon shall I be with you." So he stood for a little while very still, and then went to his place again.
Then Leof, who sat next to me, said, whispering: "Saw you aught, master ?" "I saw nothing, but surely the bishop had a vision." "I myself saw Eadmund the king stand before the bishop, and he had a wondrous crown on his head," said Leof, speaking as though of somewhat not terrible, but good to think on.
"I also saw him," said the old steward from behind me.

"I saw him plainly as in life, and I thought he smiled on us." But I had had no such sight, and it grieved me.

Moreover, two of the other three men whispered, and I thought one of them told of the like vision.

And I think, too, that the dog saw it, as the innocent beasts will see things beyond our ken.
Soon the bishop judged that the time was come for mass, and he called softly to me, bidding me serve, for I had often done so for him in the old days when I was a boy and he was at Reedham, and I knew well what to do.
Then was said a most solemn mass with that one aged priest, and us few men present.

And all was very quiet round us, for no wind stirred the trees on the old rampart.
The bishop's voice ceased with the benediction, and the hush deepened; but suddenly Leof and I looked in each other's faces.