As the Palmer, lighted by a domestic with a torch, passed through the intricate combination of apartments of this large and irregular mansion, the cupbearer coming behind him whispered in his ear, that if he had no objection to a cup of good mead in his apartment, there were many domestics in that family who would gladly hear the news he had brought from the Holy Land, and particularly that which concerned the Knight of Ivanhoe.
Egy fáklyás szolga mutatta a zarándoknak az utat a szabálytalan alakú nagy ház zegzugos folyosóin. Ekkor utolérte a zarándokot a pohárnok, és fülébe súgta, hogy ha nincs kifogása egy kancsó méhsör elfogyasztása ellen, látogassa meg őt szobájában.