he had grown singularly more protective since the assault , refusing to leave laurence unattended ; the servants had all suffered his narrow and suspicious inspection for weeks , and he had put forward several thoughtful suggestions for laurence 's protection , such as devising a schedule which should arrange for laurence 's being kept under a five-man guard at all hours , or drawing in his sand-table a proposed suit of armor which would not have been unsuited to the battlefields of the crusades .