Ballard had just finished uprooting some potatoes whose stems had fallen over. He heard someone calling to him from the edge of the field.
"What?" Ballard went over to the man.
"Go back to the house! Four knights are coming to your house!"
Ballard was surprised to hear this. He asked the man what was happening. But the man said he didn't know and just asked to call Ballard. Without cleaning himself, Ballard ran home. He left the basket of potatoes in the field.
"What happened? Alma! Alma! What happened?" Ballard looked anxiously at the four knights outside the house. He called his daughter-in-law who lived in the house.
Alma, the daughter-in-law Ballard had called, appeared. She looked well.
"Father, thank God you came quickly!"
"What's wrong? Why are there so many knights?" Ballard approached Alma and asked his daughter-in-law about the knights standing by the carriage.
"They came with Cyril. He's inside."
