And I have your word upon it that you will observe secrecy ?" "My word on it, Sir," I said.
Then His Majesty leaned back again and relaxed a little.
"That is very well," he said; "and I think I have chosen my man well.
You need not fear, Mr.Mallock, that any harm will come to the good Fathers, or to Grove or Pickering either.

They cannot lay a finger upon them without my consent; and that they shall never have.

It is to prevent rather the scandal of the whole matter that I am anxious; and to save the Queen and my brother from any trouble.

You do not know yet, I think, all the feeling that there is upon the Catholics." I said nothing: it was my business to listen rather, and indeed what His Majesty said next was worth hearing.
"There be three kinds of religion in my realm," he said.

"The Presbyterian and Independent and that kind--for I count those all one; and that is no religion for a gentleman.