Presently she opened on that very point; for she could talk freely before Janet.
"Did you ever know Father Campion?" she asked.
"I have never spoken with him, mistress. I have heard him preach. It was that which put it in my heart to join the company."
"You heard him preach?"
"Yes, mistress; three or four times in Essex and Hertfordshire. I heard him preach upon the young man who came to our Saviour."
"Tell me," she said, looking down at what she could see of his face.
"It was liker an angel than a man," he said quietly. "I could not take my eyes off him from his first word to the last. And all were the same that were there."
"Was he eloquent?"
"Aye; you might call it that. But I thought it to be the Spirit of God."
"And it was then you made up your mind to join the Society?"