So you see that your good father, Sir Marmaduke, is in a state of sore peril, and that the rest of us, including yourself, will be in a like strait if they can lay hands on us." "But it is all false!" Charlie exclaimed.

"It is a lie from beginning to end." "That is so, but we cannot prove it.

The matter is so cunningly laid, I see no way to pick a hole in it.

We are Jacobites, and as such long regarded as objects of suspicion by the Whig magistrates and others.

There have been other plots against William's life, in which men of seeming reputation have been concerned.