"We were looking at stones."
"Yes, but we must look at the map after breakfast. I want to find all those places."
"Take time," said Meredith, "and eat your breakfast. Lüneburg heath will not run away."
But, after breakfast, indeed, the great atlas was fetched out to the sunny terrace in front of the house and laid on a settee, and Maggie and Meredith sat down before the map of Germany with business faces.
"Now, here is the Elbe," said Maggie, "it is big enough to be seen; here is the mouth of it, just in a corner under Denmark, where those ships went from."
"What ships?"
"Why, the ships in which the Saxons went over to England—the Saxons that conquered England, Meredith."
"You do remember," said Meredith smiling. "It is worth while reading to you."
"They sailed from the mouths of the Elbe and the Weser—and here is the Weser. The mouths are pretty near together. Now, between the Elbe and the Weser were—which Saxons, Ditto?"
"Towards the Elbe and beyond it were the Eastphalians; those our story belongs to, among whom Landolf went."