"Your captivity shall be matter but of a few days."
The prelate nodded again.
"Go you back to His Highness?"
"I have first to speak with Master Recorder, which hath promised me the key of Aldersgate."
"Ha!—when shall this matter be?"
"Maundy Thursday, in the even. 'The better day, the better deed.'"
The Archbishop received the wicked proverb with a grim smile. "Very good: I undertake it."
"I thank your Grace for my master. God give you good even."
"The peace of Christ be upon you! Amen."
Which benediction really meant the expression of a wish that the diabolical bargain just concluded might not be successful, for surely the last thing likely to come upon its actors was the peace of Christ.