CHAPTER FIVE
By the following spring she drew up her first outline and presented it to Professor Connell. "He's going to reject it," she said to David, preparing for battle. "I have been sleeping with this man for a year." She meant Chrétien de Troyes. I have had him by my side with every bite of food I have taken, he has been inside my head every day for three hundred and sixty-five days and nights. I have thought about what he thought about when he woke up in the morning, when he washed his face, when he took his meals with his brethren, when he walked the halls of St. Loupe Abbey, when he made the decision to convert, when he underwent the baptismal ritual, when he adopted the name of Chrétien, when he joined troubadours and Marie at their Court of Love and mingled with famous poets. D
