Cnut's fleet would be in the Thames ere long, if it barred not the mouth already.
But Abbot Elfric had not come.

We feared that he had fallen into Danish hands, for it was hard to say where they were not.

It seemed that we must perforce leave London without him.

Yet I would stay till the last for his coming.
Now I must leave England, and I have said little about myself.

But when this duty was laid on me by the king, I thought more of my lost quest of Hertha than I had done of late.