Outside the door the kitten mewed restlessly in the cold wind to be taken in.
"So," he said, "cheer up.

This is not your fault; you almost won through.

Had the queen come forth as an abbess, I think that I had left you for very shame.

Priests and black cats are aye unlucky passengers, however." I think that I was never so angry as then.

To lose all our pains for the safety of the queen, and that by reason of her own foolishness, was hard.
Egil left me and went to Bertric; and once more the sail was set, and the ship headed backward for the English coast.