She loved power, and even this little use thereof pleased her.
"When can we go ?" she asked.

"I long to see my own land again." "At nightfall, in two hours' time," I told her.
"It is well.

Be ready then," she said.
She had persuaded herself, as I believe, that she arranged all things, and I was glad to have it so, for I had feared that I should have had trouble more than enough with her unreasoning pride.
So I told Elfric that his nuns could go, and he thanked me, laughing a little, with some thought of their journey here as I thought, and he added: "Aye, their dress protects them a little.

It is not as in the old days of heathen against Christian.

There is this to be said for Cnut, that he will have no monastery or nunnery harried if his orders are carried out." Then a thought came to me, and I wished that I could persuade our queen to take on herself and her maidens the convent dress.