Bewildered, Begiloc sought Father Robyn. Two days Caena and he had waited for a summons from the abbess. Did she not wish to know the outcome of their assignment to Neustria? In church, he found the priest standing beside a wooden statue of the Virgin in the nave.
“Ah, Begiloc, well met. I can"t decide whether Our Lady should stand to the right of the altar or in the corner on the left for offerings and prayer.”
The statue, a finely sculpted and painted donation of a nobleman from a nearby farmstead, wore a golden crown and blue mantle. Father Robyn, to the accompaniment of noncommittal shrugs from the Briton, opted to place the dazzling figure by the altar. The honed muscles of Begiloc aided the clergyman to lift the statue in position. Stepping down to the nave, they surveyed their han
