The Atheling - Chapter 7

“…Without his proving in the holy city the king is but a man like all the rest. Already the people line the streets to see their next king ride the route that will render him a demigod. What—shall you stand out there and tell them that you’ll not go? … Farce or no—and that’s not for you to say—of course you’ll go tomorrow against one thousand conspiracies, and there’s an end to it.”