Part VI of The Quest of Sir Tor

‘Ay say!’  cried the first, quite unable to move in the slightest.  ‘Ay say, Sir Palamedes, are you quite all right, what?’  

‘Yours even in death presumes that he has died and been transported to a void of nothingness,’ said the paynim almost coldly.  ‘It all comes of converting to your christianity.  Other than this indisposition, I am quite all right.…