Highborn boys were sent off to another noble household at the age of about seven, to serve strenuously as pages and later as esquires to their lord before they themselves were knighted, looked around for a lady and incidentally got married and produced more knightlets, whom they never got to know at all well.

You and I live in close proximity.

Baldies. Baldchin gropers. Tastiest fish I've caught this week, I replied.

He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream.