"I'll shout as I wish in my own home, mistress, I do tell you. As for you, Sten, you'll go nowhere until I bid you to..
"Of course, it would seem her own choice. That's what that dancing and capering popinjay does. He leads them in. But, oh. When he loses interest or something happens to them. Then, maybe, the bones will be found.
"You'll tell me where you saw them. Me and the boys will be out on the morrow to search for her. I must confess that I thought we had seen the last of Roger as he had not been seen for many a year. Yet, that gives me hope, for I thought Aggie snatched by a wild beast a year since.
"From what the priest has told me, you have sworn to a holy mission. I would not have you away from that. But I will have your word, that you are back here within a ten-day and bring my little Aggie home
"If you cannot swear that to me, you'll leave this place now and your fallen companion will be gone by the morn."
She looks at you all, "Swear to me."
Bohemond rises. "I don't travel further, good mistress. I shall show you to where we saw the child and Roger."
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