killed. All is lost here for the present. Which will you do, my
love, ride with me to the West, where Queen Margaret will speedily
land, if indeed she has not landed already, or take sanctuary here
with the boy?"

"I will go with you," she said. "I would vastly rather do so."

"I will tell you more on the road," he said. "There is no time to
be lost now."

The woman of the house was called, and at once set her son to
saddle the other horse and to give a feed to that of the knight.
Dame Tresham busied herself with packing the saddlebags while her
husband partook of a hasty meal; and ten minutes after his arrival
they set off, Gervaise riding behind his father, while the latter
led the horse on which his wife was mounted. A thick mist hung over
the country.

"This mist told against us in the battle, wife, for as we advanced
our forces fell into confusion, and more than once friend attacked
friend, believing that he was an enemy. However, it has proved an
advantage to us now, for it has enabled great numbers to escape
who might otherwise have been followed and cut down. I was very
fortunate. I had left my horse at a little farmhouse two miles in
the rear of our camp, and in the fog had but small hope of finding
it; but soon after leaving the battlefield, I came upon a rustic
hurrying in the same direction as myself, and upon questioning him
it turned out that he was a hand on the very farm at which I had
left the horse. He had, with two or three others, stolen out after
midnight to see the battle, and was now making his way home again,