We are wanted at Guthrum's side, and can take no men, but a few boys back.

Yet the other ship will stay while I send messengers inland, if Ingvar will not.

But I shall return no more." "Then," said I, "I will speak to the Lady Osritha." "Go at once," he said, smiling; "bid her come with us to the better home we have found." I had not seen Osritha since I left her yesterday, and now I feared a little, not knowing how she would look on things.
Yet I need not have feared, for when they took me to her bower she rose up and came to me, falling on my neck and weeping, and I knew that I had found her again not to part with her.
When she grew calmer, I asked her if she would return with us to Reedham, telling her how there would be no fear of war there in the time to come.

And she held her peace, so that I thought she would not, and tried to persuade her, telling her what a welcome would be to her from all our folk, and also from the Danish people who loved her so well.
So I went on, until at last she raised her head, smiling at me.
"Surely I will follow you--let me be with you where you will." So it came to pass that next day we sailed, Osritha taking her four maidens with her, for they would not leave her; having, moreover, somewhat to draw them overseas even as I had been drawn to this place again.

And with us went close on a score of women and children whose menfolk were settled already near to Reedham.