By Ellis Peters
During this medieval secret set within the cloisters of britain, an odd sequence of occasions threatens the delicate equilibrium of existence. Brother Cadfael needs to depart his herb backyard and commit himself to monitoring down a ruthless assassin.
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He watches the comings and goings from Eaton,” said Brother Paul, confiding his mild anxiety to Cadfael in the peace of the herb garden, “and is sharp enough to be very well aware what they mean. And he understood all too well what went on at his father’s funeral. ” “As well he should have his wits about him,” said Cadfael comfortably. “It’s the knowing innocents that avoid the snares. And the lady’s made no move now for ten days. ” But he was by no means convinced of that. Dame Dionisia was not used to being thwarted.
Father Andrew tells me,” he reported after the visitor had departed, “that since the Savigniac brothers from Buildwas brought this Cuthred into her house she sets great store by his counsel, and rules herself by his advice and example. The man has won a great report for holiness already. They say he’s taken strict vows in the old way, and never leaves his cell and garden now. But he never refuses help or prayers to any who ask. Father Andrew thinks very highly of him. The anchorite way is not our way,” said Brother Francis with great earnestness, “but it’s no bad thing to have such a holy man living so close, on a neighbouring manor.
He’ll know best how to deal. ” In times full of trouble, with cousins contending bitterly for the throne, and opportunist lords changing their coats according to the pendulum fortunes of this desultory war, Hugh was only too glad to be guardian of a shire which had changed hands but once, and settled down doggedly thereafter to keep King Stephen’s title unchallenged and the tide of unrest at bay from its borders, whether the threat came from the empress’s forces, the unpredictable cantrips of the wild Welshmen of Powys to the west, or the calculating ambition of the earl of Chester in the north.