"Well put, good sir," Didymus answered with a fervent nod, and he smiled as Magius patted Ambrosius. Ambrosius gave a muffled bark and tried to rear in his excitement. "Steady, boy," he told Ambrosius then, a slight tone of warning in his voice.
"I must confess, I have never been in the company of so many worthy brethren," he added after a moment. In fact, in light of that, he was not sure how their captors continued to get the better of them. Well, apart from the underhanded methods they employed.