favorite quote: 
 "Jenny gaped at the rather comic spectacle, unable to believe her own eyes until Friar Gregory was so close she could actually see the stricken expression on his face. Rounding on her husband, sputtering in her furious indignation, she burst out, "You--you madman! You've stolen a priest this time! You've actually done it! 
 You've stolen a priest right out of a holy priory!" 
 Transferring his gaze from the riders to her, Royce regarded her in bland silence, his utter lack of concern only adding to her outrage. "They'll hang you for this!" Jenny prophesied with furious glee. "The pope himself will make sure of it! They'll behead you, they'll draw and quarter you, they'll hang your head from a pike and feed your entrails to--" 
 "Please," Royce drawled in exaggerated horror, "you will give me nightmares."