After a while the Marquis of Ravenscar came out and joined him. Roger Comstock – the least promising, and so far the most successful, of the men Daniel had gone to Cambridge with – had been in the north when the King had fallen ill on Monday. He was overseeing the construction of his manor house, which Daniel had designed for him. The news must've taken a day or two to reach him, and he must've set out immediately: it was now Thursday evening. Roger was still in his traveling-clothes, looking more drab than Daniel had ever seen him – almost Puritanical.