Master Alcuin, in an apologetic murmur, warded it again, then, with the suddenness of a summer cloudburst, demanded, “What, Marshall, in the name of Merlin himself, do you mean by coming here?” Gray blanched, and for a moment Sophie was certain—despite their welcome—that they had made a dreadful mistake. “I am constantly watched,” the don continued furiously. “You might have called on almost anyone else without danger, but I—And he is here—here in Oxford, though not living in College, for he has brought a daughter with him, it appears—you are mad to come here, Marshall, you will be discovered and—” Gray and Sophie exchanged a look of mingled horror and relief: Master Alcuin was not concerned for his own safety, then, but for Gray’s. Sophie’s heart warmed towards this odd little man, to whom Gray had told her he already owed so much. But Amelia is here, she thought—not without wonder, for the Professor had always maintained the strictest separation between his family and the sacred groves of Oxford.
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