"Why?"
"My husband is an enemy to my son. Price is a royalist while Robert is a Puritan and a republican."
"Is your son with Bacon?"
"He is, and Sir William would hang Robert if he could."
"He shall not hang him."
"If he captures him, who will prevent it?"
"I will." They parted at the door, and as the old man went down to his boat, she gazed after him, murmuring:
"Heaven surely hath sent us a protector at last."