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`` Nay , '' said the carline shortly , `` lodging for the master and lodging for the man are two different things . '' Roger laughed and said nought , and Ralph gave him good night , and followed the carline nothing loth , who led him to a fair chamber over the solar , as if he had been the very master of the castle , and he lay down in a very goodly bed , nor troubled himself as to where Roger lay , nor indeed of aught else , nor did he dream of Burg , or wood , or castle , or man , or woman ; but lay still like the image of his father 's father on the painted tomb in the choir of St. Laurence of Upmeads . Of Ralph in the Castle of Abundance Broad lay the sun upon the plain amidst the wildwood when he awoke and sprang out of bed and looked out of the window -LRB- for the chamber was in the gable of the hall and there was nought of the castle beyond it -RRB- . It was but little after noon of a fair June day , for Ralph had slumbered as it behoved a young man . The light wind bore into the chamber the sweet scents of the early summer , the chief of all of them being the savour of the new-cut grass , for about the wide meadows the carles and queens were awork at the beginning of hay harvest ; and late as it was in the day , more than one blackbird was singing from the bushes of the castle pleasance . Ralph sighed for very pleasure of life before he had yet well remembered where he was or what had befallen of late ; but as he stood at the window and gazed over the meadows , and the memory of all came back to him , he sighed once more for a lack of somewhat that came into his heart , and he smiled shamefacedly , though there was no one near , as his thought bade him wonder if amongst the haymaking women yonder there were any as fair as those yellow-clad thrall-women of the Burg ; and as he turned from the window a new hope made his heart beat , for he deemed that he had been brought to that house that he might meet some one who should change his life and make him a new man . So he did on his raiment and went his ways down to the hall , and looked about for Roger , but found him not , nor any one else save the carline , who presently came in from the buttery , and of whom he asked , where was Roger .