No longer shackled they clung to each other, Roger said “thank God we have some more time together” and as darkness fell Roger tenderly removed Edith’s clothes and they had the best sex they had ever experienced, the background thought that they were soon to be executed now almost thrilled Edith, much of whose short life had been spent in abject misery before she had been rescued by Roger. Women and children dutifully spat at him as he was led past them to where a hurdle had been laid out behind the horse which was first to draw him round the town as a humiliation before its inhabitants. Xxx Once the gibbet, hurdle and brazier had been fetched from the town they went to fetch the girl. Her sweat now chilled her upper body but the tattered remains of Roger’s tunic were too shredded to provide
