However, I shall in all things be guided by your father.

He will know what best ought to be done.
"It is likely that he, too, may be arrested.

This is evidently a deep plot, and your father thinks that, although the papers alone may not be sufficient to convict my father, the spy we had in our house will be ready to swear that he heard your father, and mine, and the others, making arrangements for the murder of William of Orange; and their own word to the contrary would count but little against such evidence, backed by those papers." They talked together for half an hour, and were then summoned to supper.

Nothing was said, upon the subject, until the servitors had retired, and the meal was cleared away.

Mr.Jervoise was, like Sir Marmaduke, a widower.
"I have been thinking it all over," he said, when they were alone.
"I have determined to ride, at once, to consult some of my friends, and to warn them of what has taken place.