His conscience will not permit him to hire himself under a false name to a man who believes him an orthodox priest holding his own views.
Garret will never do that, and he will be right not to do it.

It would be a false step.

One may not tamper with the truth, nor act deceitfully in holy things." Then Arthur Cole began to speak, and to tell Clarke what had happened with regard to the cardinal and the heads of various houses, and how his own name had been set down as one who was suspected of the taint of heresy.
"They know that men come to your rooms to read the Scriptures and discourse thereon," he concluded, "and in these times that is almost enough to brand a man a heretic.

And yet I know that you are not one.

I would that the cardinal himself were half so true a servant of God." A slight smile passed over Clarke's beautiful face.