Still, what did Cherry know about it?
She was but a child.
"I know that there be treasons and treacherous plots enow in the world," answered Cherry, as he put the question to her.

"I hear more than men think; and since thou hast been here, Cuthbert, I have listened and heeded as I was not wont to do.

All men whisper of the treachery and malice of the Papists.

All men know that had they their will the King would be sent to death or imprisonment, and some other person placed upon the throne." "I know not how that may be," answered Cuthbert slowly, "and I have no concern in such matters.

All I have to do is to give these papers to one whom I know, and who has befriended me; and that must I do at all cost, for my word is pledged, and thou wouldst not have me go back from that, wouldst thou, Cherry ?" "I would not have thee run into danger," answered Cherry, sticking persistently to her point with true feminine insistence, "and I know better than thou canst do what evil haps befall them who meddle in matters too hard for them, and that they reek not of.
"Cuthbert," drawing a little nearer and speaking in a breathless whisper, "dost call to mind what the wise woman said: how thou wast to beware of the dark river--the flowing river?
And yet thou wilt venture forth upon it this eve! I like it not; I like it not! I would that I could make a prisoner of thee, that thou mightest not go." "It were sweet imprisonment to be held in such thrall," answered Cuthbert, smiling, as he loosed the clasp of the warm arms from about his neck; "but this time, sweetheart, I must needs go.