Hugues looked at him disdainfully. We're needed here in the city to keep order. Riots could ensue. Oh, not you, Father de Bologna. I suggest you pay some stout fellow to watch your mount and get yourself back into the church.
Prayers are in order.
He handed off the reins and headed for the cathedral door. Yes, prayers were certainly in order. A wall of rock, so sturdy one moment, in rubble the next. In chapter two nights after the accident, Hugues de Pairaud calmly pronounced it an act of God, engineered to illustrate the superiority of the Temple to doubters like Clement V and Philip the Fair. De Pairaud made a great show of decorating the English hero who had waded in at great personal peril and saved Clement.