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"That was another hunch after I got up."

"Well, change to everyday clothes, then. Spit in the eye of the Devil!"

She was trying to help him forget, and he loved her for it, but the reality of the
dream was still with him. He would have had to tell her about it anyway, but he
had made a clumsy mess of it, diving into the telling as he had.

"No, I think I'll leave them on. Remember, it's an experiment."

"Then leave them on! It doesn't matter. But come help me fire up the staff and

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maybe you can forget about it!"

"Here I come," he said, more cheerfully than he had said anything since she had
come in and found him on the bed.

But late in the afternoon, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, with his customary
entourage of chaplain, clerk, personal servants and a dozen stout men-at-arms,
came visiting, and Jim had to play host to him alone, while Angie hastily
changed into more formal apparel.

The equivalent of afternoon tea was set up immediately, and they all settled
down (or up, rather) in the Solar for a leisurely exchange of news and views until
the formality of supper. Meanwhile, outside, the afternoon waned, to the point
where the Great Gates of Malencontri were closed against the oncoming night.

To the west of the castle, the red, late-autumn sun was still visible, but already
beginning to lose its lower edges behind the tops of the thick belt of trees out of
which the drifters had come the night before. Still, the fading, late-fall twilight
continued to give illumination to the end of the day. Only now, only a few
moments past, two riders had come out of the ruddily tipped trees, heading for
the already barred Great Gates of the castle.

Already, however, several senior men-at-arms were gathered on the catwalk,
looking over that part of the castle's curtain wall to observe and leisurely discuss
the newcomers. They would most certainly not be let in now, after gate-close.

Other men-at-arms were joining them as soon as they were off duty. Men-at-
arms only, for the defensive catwalk below the battlements clear around the
castle wall was territory of the men-at-arms aloneтАФordinary Castle servants

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