They are not unusual here from all accounts." "By no means," said Dalfin.

"And they may mean little.

At the most, we may be kept waiting here for a day or two longer while my father gathers men and goes to see what is amiss.

Now I have a mind to ask the hermits to call the fishers and let me cross and help, if so be there is fighting on hand.
"You would come also, would you not ?" he asked, looking at us two.
"Hardly," Bertric answered, before I could do so in the same word.
"Why not ?" "It is not to be supposed that we could leave our charge," he answered.
"Forgive me; I forgot," said Dalfin at once.
But even that word had made Gerda pale with the thought that she might be left alone, with the fear of our not returning for her.
She smiled at Bertric as he answered, and then asked if we should not follow the brothers into the chapel, as we were told we might do at any time, though this first service was not one for which she and I might stay all the while.
So we went in, and there bided while we might.

Presently we two had to rise up and leave the place, unwillingly, so far as Gerda was concerned.