Isabel Walton, who was regarded as a distinguished guest of Sarry, spent a whole day in the Earl of Surrey's estate, and she was even graciously kept by Surrey for the night. Leaving guests overnight at the Earl's estate in Surrey was almost unhappening in the past. Of course, this is directly related to the great wealth that Isabel brought to Lady Surrey.

From the morning until midnight that day, the two talked to each other. From the Atlantic, the Americas, and the Caribbean to the overseas colonies of Spain and Portugal, from the "specialty" of Africa (blacks) to the Spanish heavy arquebus, the two finally brought the two-front war that was going on at the moment into the conversation.

Compared to Isabel, who was familiar with military affairs, warfare, intrigue and overseas ocean voyages, Lady Surrey, who had already fathered four noble descendants for the Earl of Surrey, was still a traditional aristocratic woman, and her feelings about the war on the European continent and the imminent Anglo-Soviet war were only at the level of worrying about her family and partners.

She hoped that her husband, who was the Field Marshal of England, would return to the kingdom safely and spend every carefree country day with her and her children at the comfortable Windsor Manor, and that Isabelle, who was about to go north, would be careful about the Anglo-Soviet war that was about to begin, and pray to God that Isabel's relatives would survive the war.

The next day, April 29, Isabel left Surrey Manor at sunrise to return to the Duke of Richmond's Manor, three miles away. When she came to the manor's house for the servants and the guards, she immediately instructed the coachman to prepare the carriage. The others immediately began to pack their bags, prepare their horses, weapons, and various belongings and return to the north.

After lunch, a convoy of 10 wagons lined up in a long line on the manor's road to the outside world. While the group was still waiting for Isabel's order to leave, Rose, the maid sitting in the carriage of the first carriage, put the package under her buttocks, and glanced at James Short, who was sitting opposite, in the proper posture of a maid.

Then he raised his head to look at the sky that was showing the weather between sunny and cloudy, and whispered, "James, do you know why Miss is anxious to rush back to the north?" ”

James, who was holding a heavy arquebus, propped his head in his right hand, squinted at her and just said, "I've heard some news from other people that there is going to be a war in the north. ”

"Fighting...?" Rose looked surprised, and raised his head slightly to look at the coachman sitting outside the fender of the right carriage, his eyes fixed on the other, "James, who told you that?" ”

"Baldwin, Your Excellency has told him something about our war with the Scots."

"Do you know why there is a war?"

"I don't know."

"Well, will the Scots go north?"

James shook his head thoughtfully, "I remember many years ago, when the Scots' army entered the north and was quickly defeated by His Majesty's army. I heard that the Scots died a lot of people in that war. ”

The maid Rose did not continue to talk about the war, but looked up at the sky again, "I hope that we can be blessed by God and let this war end soon." ”

Isabel led 10 guards in cuirass and swords to ride slowly from the left side of the carriage, and stopped the horses beside the carriage when she heard the maid's words. "Rose, Your Excellency is here." James, who was sitting on the floor of the carriage, said to the maid opposite, and quickly stood up and nodded at Isabel outside the carriage, "Good day, Your Excellency." ”

Rose looked at her employer with a sad look on her face and didn't speak, and Isabel smiled at her, "Rose, it's okay. You can rest a little longer on the way, and if you want to do something for me, you can rub the arquebus with James. ”

"Yes, miss." The maid's answer made people feel that her heart seemed to be heavy.

Isabel didn't say anything more, just turned her head to look at the flag bearer beside her, "Baldwin, let's go." ”

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Two days later, the team was on the opposite side of the Trent River, south of the town of Longeaton, in south-west Nottinghamshire, and saw swans, herons and other waterfowl feeding on the water. Standing on the side of the road admiring the river that divides the north and the south, Isabel Lema calmly turned her head to look at the guards, "Hall, tell the musketeers to shoot immediately if they see a farmer, a hired hand, or a landless wanderer approaching the wagon with a weapon." ”

As Holzer galloped towards the back of the group, she turned her horse's head to the first carriage. At this moment, the musketeers and maids in the carriage stood in the carriage, gazing curiously at the fields and meadows on both sides of the road, and the small countryside in the distance. Rose smiled at Isabel in a good mood, "Miss, what is this place?" ”

Isabel turned her horse's head in the direction of progress again, turned her head to look at the maid in the carriage, and said with a smile, "This is Nottinghamshire, and we will enter the north after crossing the Trent River ahead." ”

At this moment, the maid remembered some rumors about the north that her partner had told her, and hurriedly craned her neck to look at the river in front of her, "Miss, my partner told me something about the north before leaving Plymouth. But now I can't see anything. ”

Isabel glanced at her and smiled kindly, "Rose, what do you want to see?" ”

"Confusion, robbery, and violence against others."

Rose's words made Isabel laugh, and even the musketeer James Short laughed and joked with her, "Rose, if these people come to attack you, will you still want to meet these people?" ”

Rose lowered his head slightly and glanced at Isabel who was riding on the horse, and then shouted at James with his neck in his neck: "Miss's team is here, do these people dare to come and attack me?" ”

Isabel turned her gaze back to the musketeer beside the maid, "James, watch the road carefully, and if you see a squire who is not a nobleman approaching the carriage, shoot immediately, understand?" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency." James nodded when he looked at her with resolute eyes, and suddenly asked again, "Miss, how do you tell the difference between nobles and commoners?" ”

"The nobles' attendants all have the insignia of the nobility painted on their chests, and they will wear the same costume."

"I see, Your Excellency."

Later, Isabel led the party carefully across the Trent River into the northern society. After about a day of driving, we entered the road leading to Sharif Hatton Castle from the south in the early morning of May 1. Along the way, the crowd continued to find a priest holding a cross in front of the procession, followed by several prayer processions of believers walking from one village to another.