Therefore, the only way to do was as I did.

I could not go where you were.

There should be hid from you the fact that Erris Boyne was a traitor.

This is your right, in my mind.

Looking back, I feel sure I could have escaped jail if I had told what I knew of Erris Boyne; and perhaps it would have been better, for I should, no doubt, have been acquitted.