"It isn't one I speak of a great deal nowadays. I'm told", he says, with a touch of dryness directed at someone not present, "it is not good for the novice brothers to hear tales of adventure beyond their scope, though it is no secret that I took the cowl late in life and often they ask. I myself was not ready to turn for home after the First Crusade was done, so I stayed in the East, sailing cargo boats."