Deep in the woods, a Saxon rescue party begins to coalesce as Locksley—previously highlighted as the yeoman archer who stood up to Prince John and the gallant bandit who refused to steal from a fellow Saxon—joins Wamba and Gurth. Although the book primarily presents Norman oppression through the experiences of the elite—Rowena, Athelstane, Cedric, and (to a lesser extent) Ivanhoe—Locksley’s banditry points to the ways that Norman greed affects all classes of society, even the medieval middle class. Their success or failure will foreshadow the success or failure of the Saxon cause in England.