"Then shall Redwald tell us all he knows." So by and by we sat in the morning sunlight in the courtyard, and I told them all that had happened from beginning to end.

They knew no more than that Ethelred was dead, and that Cnut was besieging London.
"We tried to chase those Danes because they had got our man's ship," said Godwine.

"When we got near enough, for they came down wind and passed us before long, we found that Bertric was contented enough, running up his own flag, and the Danes did not stay to fight.

So we came home, only losing our tide by the delay." "What would you have done had you known that the queen was on board, and a prisoner ?" I asked.
"Why, nothing more than we have done," Godwine said.

"My father hates Emma the cat as bitterly as he does Streone the fox, which is saying a good deal.