So that she seemed already well known to me, and why this was I could not say, and at times it troubled me as puzzling things will.

But, all the same, I loved to find myself so puzzled.
Thus, by the time we came over the great spur of the Downs that ends in Beachy Head, and looked over all Pevensea level to the Penhurst woods and hills beyond, I and Uldra were very good friends, and Relf was pleased that it should be so, and rode between us in high content.
It was midday when we passed the last hill of the Downs where the mighty giant lies like a shadow on the grass by Wilmington; then we saw the gray castle where Wulfnoth bided, away to our right; and then along the steep ridge inland and down to Boreham, where I must tell the maiden of the great sea wave, and how Olaf saved me.

And so we came to Penhurst in its valley among the trees, and the ride was over.
Now there is no need to say what welcome was at that house, whether for its lord, or for the warrior who had been nursed back to life there, or for the new-come homeless maiden.

Relf was not wrong when he told her that she should be as a daughter in the house.
Some of the men had ridden on, so that the homecoming feast should be spread for us, and there was the lady at the courtyard gates, and with her Sexberga, and a tall, handsome young thane, whom I knew for Eldred of Dallington; and there was Father Anselm, and Spray the smith, and many more whose faces I was glad to see again.
And among all those faces were nought but welcoming looks--save from one only.

I did not note this, being taken up with watching how they greeted Uldra, for that seemed to me to be the only thing that I cared about.