The third was flushed and looked troubled, and she cast a glance back into the dark cabin.

I heard the queen's voice speaking fast to her, as it would seem, and she shrank away as if dreading it.
Elfric went to meet them, and then the queen herself came through the cabin door stooping, for it was not high.
"This is your doing," she said to the abbot.

"Am I to be left without any attendants ?" "My queen," the good man said, "we can take the sisters no further with us.

They must go ashore." The queen looked at the coast, which was plain enough now.

It was certain that she had no knowledge that we were returning to England.