You, good sir, are a stranger to me, albeit, I doubt not, a very worthy gentleman." The man's thin face lighted up with a gleam of approval.
"You are i' the right, young sir; you are i' the right of it," he said.

"In these days of peril and trouble men cannot walk too warily.

My name is Robert Kay, and the fate which has been your father's has been mine, too.

I have been ruined and beggared for my devotion to my faith; and but for Master Robert Catesby and others who have given me assistance and employment, I might well have starved in some garret ere now.

Yet I was gently born and nurtured, and mine only cause of offence was the religion which but a generation back all men in this realm honoured and loved.
Well-a-day! alack-a-day! we have fallen on evil times.