Chapter 16They came for us just after dark. It was about six o’clock, I think. I knew this, as the abbot has one of those candles that shows the divisions of the hour. I noticed this as they bundled us into his private chapel. In the distance, I heard the bell for vespers and felt an instinctive shame that we would miss it.
We were naked; the abbey’s provosts had not allowed us to dress. As it was, we had done nothing. I had been too tired from working in the fields, and Aldwyn was content to cuddle while we made our plans for escape. It was useless to point this out; that we were innocent. We had been found together in each other’s arms, huddled for warmth beneath the hop sacks. That was enough.
“We just wanted to be together,” said Aldwyn, although I knew it was futile.
“Oh, you will
