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* Rebecca's perseverance against her predator Brian de Bois-Guilbert during her imprisonment in the Preceptory at Templestowe, proving her and the [[Narrator]]'s claims that women's passive courage is more impressive that men's feats on the battlefield any day.

* Wilfred showing up to defend Rebecca... and goading Bois-Guilbert into accepting his challenge via [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken]].

{{quote|"Bread and water and a dungeon are marvellous mortifiers of ambition, and I rise from the tomb a wiser man than I descended into it. One half of those vain follies were puffed into mine ear by that perfidious Abbot Wolfram, and you may now judge if he is a counsellor to be trusted. Since these plots were set in agitation, I have had nothing but hurried journeys, indigestions, blows and bruises, imprisonments and starvation; besides that they can only end in the murder of some thousands of quiet folk. I tell you, I will be king in my own domains, and nowhere else."}}

* The revelation of the Black Knight's [[Secret Identity]] -- not the surprise, but the inherent awesomeness of the character...