Rebecca retreated. Her importunities had prevailed upon Urfried to suffer her to quit the turret, and
Urfried had employed her services where she herself would most gladly have paid them, by the bedside
of the wounded Ivanhoe. With an understanding awake to their dangerous situation, and prompt to avail
herself of each means of safety which occurred, Rebecca had hoped something from the presence of a
man of religion, who, she learned from Urfried, had penetrated into this godless castle. She watched the
return of the supposed ecclesiastic, with the purpose of addressing him, and interesting him in favour of
the prisoners; with what imperfect success the reader has been just acquainted.