The Minstrel In The Tower (1988) - Plot & Excerpts
It sounded so perfect that a real nightingale might have been fooled, but not Alice. Her brother, Roger, had whistled the bird’s song. It was their secret signal. “I’m up here,” she called. “Are you in that tree again?” he cried, seeing Alice in the top branches of a huge sycamore. “You know you’re not supposed to climb that high! Get down, you monkey.” “It’s nice up here,” Alice answered. “I can see so far! When Father returns from the Crusade, I’ll be the first to see him coming.” Roger leaned against the trunk of the big old tree. “If he’s ever going to come home at all,” he said, “this would be a good time for it, with Mother so sick.” It was the year 1195, and the Crusade had ended three years earlier. Mother, Roger, and Alice waited alone in their cottage, with only their elderly neighbor, Zara, to visit them. Since their mother had become ill, old Zara helped care for her. “You’d better come down right now,” Roger called, “before Zara starts looking for us.
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