It is a way they have," the thane said.

"'Come in here!' said the rat in the trap to the rat outside, 'one is safe from the cat behind these bars.'" So we walked on for a little, and then he said: "How did she hear of Sexberga?
I thought you had had no speech with her on the journey." "Nor had I," I answered.

"I thought she was another silent nun.

But I thought she was like Sexberga, and so I called her Sister Sexberga to myself, giving her a name in my thoughts.

Then in the boat it slipped out unawares when I had to speak to her, and she asked to be told why I called her so." "As much like Sexberga as you are like Godwine, which is not at all," said Relf laughing.