The scratch was actually on his face the next morning, and he set out
at the head of half the Lances of Lynwood to find the poor old woman,
and visit her with condign punishment; but she was not forthcoming,
and they were obliged to content themselves with burning her house,
assisted by a host of idlers. In the meantime, Sir Eustace had called
in the aid of the clergy: the chaplains of the camp came in procession,
sprinkled the patient's bed with holy water, and uttered an exorcism,
but without availing to prevent a third visit from the enemy. After
this, however, Leonard's fever began to abate, and he ceased to be
haunted.

He had been very ill; and, thoroughly alarmed, he thought himself
dying, and bitterly did he repent of the headstrong insubordination
and jealously which had lead him to quit his best and only friend.
He had not, indeed, the refinement of feeling which would have made
Eustace's generosity his greatest reproach; he clung to him as his
support, and received his attentions almost as a right; but still he
was sensible that he had acted like a fool, and that such friendship
was not to be thrown away; and when he began to recover he showed
himself subdued, to a certain degree grateful, and decidedly less
sullen and more amenable to authority.

In the meantime, the Prince of Wales found himself sufficiently
recovered to undertake to return to Aquitaine, and, weary of the
treacherous delays and flagrant crimes of his ally, he resolved
to quit this fatal land of Castile.

There was a general cry of joy throughout the camp when orders were
given that the tents should be struck and the army begin its march