I have permission then to examine these papers, and report to Your Majesty ?" "Why, yes," said the King, "so you do not inflict the forty-three heads upon me.

I have one of my own which I must care for." My Lord said no more; he gathered his papers without a word, saluted the King at a distance, still without speaking, and went out, giving me a sharp glance as he went.
"Now, Mr.Mallock," said His Majesty, "sit you down and listen to me." I sat down; but I was all bewildered as to why I had been sent for.

What had I to do with such affairs as these?
"Do you know of a man called Grove ?" the King asked me suddenly.
Now the name had meant nothing to me when I had heard it just now; but when it was put to me in this way I remembered.

I was about to speak, when he spoke again.
"Or Pickering ?" he said.
"Sir; a man called Grove is known to me; but no Pickering." "Ha! then there is a man called Grove--if it be the same.

He is a Papist ?" "Sir, he is a lay-brother of the Society of Jesus, and dwells--" The King held up his hand.
"I wish to know nothing more than I am obliged.