“Art thou the leader of this company?”
“I am.”
“Wherefore earnest thou to this land?”
“Long ago, in my childhood, I had read of the blessed Boniface, who, being an Englishman, travelled into Almayne to teach our people the faith of Christ. I desired to pay back to your land something of the debt we owed her, by bringing back to her the faith of Christ.”
“Didst thou ignorantly imagine us without it?”
“I thought,” replied Gerhardt in his quiet manner, “that you could scarcely have too much of it.”
“What is thy calling?”
“While in this country, I have followed the weaver’s craft.”
“Art thou a lettered man?”
“I am.”