so those chapmen rode thither all of them , in coloured raiment , and when they came to the assembly , there were many there before them , and thurid withal the goodwife of frodis-water , and biorn went to talk with her ; and no man laid a word on them therefor , for they deemed that it was to be looked for that they should have much to say to each other , so long as it was since they met last .