When I ask you about a man I want to learn what you know _against_ him." "Naturally, Excellency, naturally, but against this one I can tell you nothing.

He has no lovers, he does not gamble, he does not drink except a glass after dinner.

He works in his factory all day, goes to bed early, rises early, and calls on the Jufvrouw van Hout on Sundays; that is all." "Where does he attend Mass ?" "At the Groote Kerke once a week, but he does not take the Sacrament or go to confession." "That sounds bad, mother, very bad.

You don't mean to say that he is a heretic ?" "Probably he is, Excellency; most of them are about here." "Dear me, how very shocking.

Do you know, I should not like that excellent young woman, a good Catholic too, like you and me, mother, to become mixed up with one of these dreadful heretics, who might expose her to all sorts of dangers.