Merlin and Arthur in “The Gates of Avalon”

Your father's bestowing a knighthood on one of your men this morning.

I'm giving it a miss.

Won't your king mind?

Not if you cover for me again. By the way, thanks for yesterday. I heard you ended up in the stocks. Bad luck.

They were throwing potatoes at me. It's only supposed to be rotten fruit!

I'm not sure there's any hard and fast rules. But, if it's any consolation, I think it was worth it.

It went well?

Great. Fantastic. She's incredible.

Don't worry. I'll find a way to get you out of it.

Make sure you don't end up in the stocks this time.

I won't. I think I'm starting to get the hang of this whole deception lark.