Now think of Rheinfrid and Hereman traversing the wild England of those olden times.  One day they were wandering in the depths of the woods; on another they were moving along some neglected Roman road, through swamps and quagmires.  Now they were passing hastily through the ruins of some Saxon thorpe which had been burned by the Normans, or lodging for the night as guests at some convent or priory, or crossing a dangerous river-ford, or making a brief stay in a busy town to preach and exhibit the shrine of the saint, so that the diseased and suffering might be touched by the miraculous relics.  And all along their journey they gathered the offerings which the people brought them.