FRANCIS
Nearer perhaps.
PETER
I say nothing.
DANIEL
I hope there is none in this company would be mean enough to betray him.
ALL
O Lord, surely not. (They drink to Sir Walter's safety.)
FRANCIS I have often wondered how our master came to be excepted by name in the late Act of Oblivion.
DANIEL
Shall I tell the reason?
ALL
Aye, do.
DANIEL
'Tis thought he is no great friend to the present happy establishment.
ALL
O! monstrous!
PETER Fellow servants, a thought strikes me.—Do we, or do we not, come under the penalties of the treason-act, by reason of our being privy to this man's concealment.