When you are ready to start, I will speak to you in private, touching some things connected with your journey." When Oswald returned, Mortimer said to him: "You see, Master Oswald, the position is by no means simple.

There can be no doubt that the king regards me with no favourable eye.

He holds my nephews in his keeping, and doubtless imagines that I bear him ill will.

As their uncle, he supposes that, should at any time a party be formed to place the Earl of March on the throne, I should be the leader in the matter; though assuredly I have never given him any reason to doubt my loyalty.
"I say not that I approved of the deposition of King Richard; and indeed I have not, like Lord Grey and many other nobles, among them the Percys, been a warm supporter of King Henry's cause.

I hold myself altogether neutral, in that matter.