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conversations.value: A title for this story could be 'Come Rack! Come Rope!'
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Come Rope!: Robin Audrey and Marjorie Manners, both aged seventeen, are secretly engaged.\nThey both come from recusant Catholic families in Derbyshire, but she is the more devout of the two.\nRobin\'s mother died when he was about seven, and his father has continued to practise the Catholic faith, despite having to pay heavy fines for refusing to attend services in the established Church of England.\nThe two families meet several times a year, when Mass is being secretly offered by a priest.\nThe story begins when Robin visits his fiancée and tells her that his father has announced that he can no longer tolerate the persecution and fines, that he will take the bread and wine in the Anglican church at Easter, and that Robin must do the same.\nMarjorie advises her lover to leave the area for Easter, so that his father will have time to accept that his son will not follow him.\nShe gives him a rosary which belonged to the recently executed priest Cuthbert Mayne, kisses him for the first time, and urges him to trust in God.\nWhen he arrives home, Robin finds his friend Anthony Babington waiting for him.\nAnthony is also a Catholic, fanatically devoted to the imprisoned, Catholic Queen of Scots.\nRobin tells Anthony of his troubles.\nLater, the two men are out riding, and pass three other men.\nOne of them, mr Garlick, recognises Anthony, having heard Mass in his house, and on being assured that Robin is also a Catholic, introduces the newly ordained mr Simpson and his travelling companion mr Ludlam to the two friends, telling them that mr Simpson will say Mass the following Sunday.\nRobin realises, as he goes home, that he must not mention this to his father.\nRobin\'s troubles at home increase, as he has to cope with his father\'s anger and sneers.\nMeanwhile, Marjorie is tormented by unexpected but persistent ideas that perhaps God is calling Robin to the priesthood.\nShe feels that if a love higher than hers is calling, she must not stand in the way, but is unsure whether such thoughts come from God or from her own imagination.\nShe talks to mr Simpson, but he is unable to advise her.\nShe is afraid to mention it to Robin, in case she has merely imagined this to be God\'s will, yet feels she should at least sow a seed in his mind.\nShe prays for guidance, thinking that "a broken heart and God\'s will done would be better than that God\'s will should be avoided and her own satisfied".\nOn Easter Sunday, after the two lovers have met secretly for Mass with other Catholics at Padley, home to the FitzHerbert family, Marjorie tells Robin her thoughts, promising that she will marry him if he wishes, but saying that if it is God\'s will that Robin should be a priest, she will not hold him for a day.\nHorrified, Robin accuses Marjorie of wanting to be rid of him.\nOn seeing how hurt she is, he kisses her and begs her forgiveness, but tells her that he cannot make that sacrifice.\nLater that day, mr Simpson, looking pale and speaking with a trembling voice, reads out to the group of Catholics a letter he has received, telling of the execution of a priest mr Nelson, and of a layman mr Sherwood, and how bravely they both faced martyrdom.\nBoth were hanged, drawn and quartered for their faith; mr Sherwood had also been racked several times.\nThe host, mr FitzHerbert, announces that the letter is from mr Ludlam, who has decided to go to Douai and study for the priesthood.\nThere have also been rumours that mr Garlick will go too.\nThe following week, Robin returns home, full of doubts and fears, and worried about his financial situation, as he has no money of his own, and his father has made it clear that he will not pay fines for Robin\'s refusal to attend church.\nOn his way home, he meets Anthony, who hints at some enterprise to restore the Catholic Faith to England, and urges Robin to join him and his friends.\nRobin\'s doubts increase: unsure of what Anthony\'s secret enterprise involves, hopeful that it may offer him a way out of his dilemma and enable him to marry Marjorie, yet unclear as to the morality of the enterprise, he tells Anthony he cannot decide immediately.\nWhen he goes back into the house, he faces his father, who angrily demands to know his intentions.\nRobin begs his father not to pressurise him, but to give him time; and his father gives him until Pentecost.\nThat night, after several failed attempts to sleep, Robin hears the noise of horses, is seized with curiosity, and goes out to see who is riding at that hour.\nHiding behind a wall, he sees mr Simpson setting out on one of his perilous journeys with two other men.\nThe sight of the priest risking his life to serve God and bring consolation to souls inspires Robin to make the decision against which he has been fighting.\nHe goes to his father\'s room, wakes the old man, and says he is ready to give his answer: "It is that I must go to Rheims and be a priest".\nA few days later, Robin comes to Marjorie, to say goodbye before setting out for Rheims.\nThey agree that he must always remember that he is to be a priest, and that if he comes to her house, it must just be as to any Catholic neighbour.\nMore than two years have passed.\nRobin is studying for the priesthood at Rheims, and Marjorie is living with her mother, her father having died.\nMarjorie\'s home is sometimes used to harbour priests.\nAnthony Babington visits her and tells her of some business he is involved with in London.\nHe has to go there to meet a priest called Ballard, but there will be many priests travelling together.\nHe urges Marjorie to come to London with him and his sister Alice to meet these priests, so that she may be in a better position to recognise and assist them if every they come to Derbyshire.\nHe mentions also that Robin will be coming.\nAlthough Robin will not be a priest for another five years, such students are sometimes sent back to England temporarily as servants, to learn how to avoid the Queen\'s men.\nSome of Anthony\'s business he does not mention to Marjorie.\nHe has become increasingly impatient with the thought of using prayer alone to combat the persecution of Catholics, and is involved in some conspiracy with Ballard and others; but most of his friends whom he has attempted to influence have drawn back and a priest has even told him he is on dangerous ground.\nMarjorie agrees to come.\nIn London, Marjorie meets Father Campion, one of the most hunted priests in the kingdom, famous for his preaching, who had entered England in the guise of a jewel merchant.\nCampion explains his position of mixing boldly with the crowd to avoid suspicion, rather than hiding behind locked doors.\nHe arranges to go with the others to see the sights of London the next day, and they see the Tower of London, and the notorious priest-hunter and torturer Richard Topcliffe.\nThey also catch a glimpse of Queen Elizabeth, of whom Campion speaks with gentleness and loyalty.\nMarjorie overhears some disagreement between Campion and Ballard, which seems to be on political matters.\nFinally, Campion discusses the content of his forthcoming pamphlet, "Decem Rationes" ("Ten Reasons"), which expostulated about the validity of the Anglican Church.\nWhen Robin arrives, Marjorie is careful to address him as "Mr.\nAudrey".\nShe asks him for prayers and advice, saying that she thinks of him as a priest already, and that although her duty is clearly to remain with her mother at present, she has wondered if she should leave the country to serve God as a nun, in the event of her mother\'s death.\nRobin promises to pray for her, but reminds her that he is not yet a priest, and gives her no advice.\nA year later, Marjorie is in her home with her sick mother, thinking of Father Campion and of the numerous escapes that he is reported to have had.\nAnthony Babington arrives, and furiously tells Marjorie that Campion, Sherwine and Brian were hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn three days previously, that they had been racked continuously, and that they all died praying for the Queen.\nThe next day, Marjorie realises that her mother is dying, and sends some men to find a priest.\nIn the evening, her mother\'s condition worsens.\nMarjorie tells her mother that there is no priest, says that God will accept her sorrow, and urges her to make an Act of Contrition.\nHer mother cries out for a priest, and Marjorie reminds her that priests are forbidden in the kingdom.\nShe says that three priests have just been executed for being priests, and tells her mother to say, "Edmund Campion, pray for me".\nMarjorie has a sudden, strong sensation that Campion is in the room; her mother smiles, looks around with no fear, and dies.\nmr Simpson arrives two hours later.\nMarjorie, calm and controlled, tells him that it is all over.\nShe tells him of the martyrdom of Father Campion and his two companions.\nmr Simpson is seized with a fear that shames and disgusts him, but is unable to overcome it.\nMarjorie tells him that she will invite Alice Babington to come and live with her, and hints that she will now be able to do more to assist fugitive priests.\nThe following summer, Marjorie meets a young Catholic carpenter called Hugh Owen.\nHe is building a special hiding place for priests at Padley, and comes to Marjorie\'s house to do the same.\nHe tells her of how much he was inspired by Campion, and that he thinks he will die for his faith some day.\nSome time later, Marjorie falls from a horse near Robin\'s old home, twisting her foot.\nRobin\'s father takes her into the house, and insists that she must dine there.\nIn a private conversation, he asks when Robin will be ordained, and she tells him that if Robin has not told him that, she cannot.\nHe understands, but tells her that he is now a magistrate, and that Robin will have no mercy from him.\nHe warns her that the authorities are aware of some of the movements of Catholics such as the FitzHerberts.\nWhen she asks why he is telling her this, he says that he was friend to the FitzHerberts before he was a magistrate.\nHe becomes angry when she mentions Robin, telling the old man that it is not too late, and that his duty to God is higher than his duty as a magistrate.\nRobin is now a priest, and has returned to England, under the name "Mr.\nAlban".\nHe meets Anthony Babington again; the latter confides to him, as to a priest, the details of the enterprise at which he had only hinted some years before.\nAnthony and a number of others, including Ballard, intend to kill the Queen and to set the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, on the throne.\nHe tells how they have been helped by Gilbert Gifford, and how they send messages to Queen Mary, in code.\nRobin begs him to give up the plot, saying that it is against God\'s law.\nHe is uneasy at the plan for practical reasons, too, saying that too much hangs on mr Gifford, who may not be as trustworthy as Anthony thinks.\nRobin tells Anthony that he cannot give him absolution as long as Anthony intends to kill Queen Elizabeth.\nHe says that as Anthony was speaking to him as a priest, he will regard the conversation as under the seal of confession, but warns Anthony not to come to him the next day as if he knows it as a man, as it would be his duty to inform the authorities.\nA few days later, Robin receives a letter from Anthony, saying that he has been betrayed and is being watched at every point, and that mr Gifford has been a traitor all along.\nA letter to Queen Mary is enclosed, and Anthony begs Robin to deliver it to her, or if that proves impossible, to memorise the contents and deliver it orally.\nRobin destroys the letter.\nAnthony and his companions are arrested soon after.\nRobin makes his way to Chartley Hall, where Queen Mary is held captive.\nHe speaks to her apothecary, a Catholic called mr Bourgoign, and tells him that he is a priest, and has a message for the Queen.\nSuspicious at first, mr Bourgoign is finally convinced when Robin offers to confide the message to him and ride away again.\nHe urges Robin to stay and to find some way to have a private interview with the Queen, who longs to make her confession, knowing that she will soon be executed.\nThey decide that Robin, who has some skill as a herbalist, will be presented to Sir Amyas Paulet, the Queen\'s jailer, as one who may be able to help the Queen\'s health.\nSir Amyas reluctantly allows Robin to see the Queen alone for a few minutes, and Robin hears her confession and gives her Holy Communion.\nThe Queen declares herself to be completely innocent of the plot against Elizabeth.\nSome months have passed.\nAnthony Babington and his companions have been executed.\nRobin returns to Derbyshire, and is received by Marjorie.\nHe hears confessions and says Mass at her house.\nMarjorie knows that mr Bourgoign is likely to send for Robin again to hear Queen Mary\'s confession before her execution, and that the message will be sent through her.\nKnowing that there can hardly be a greater danger for a priest than to risk arrest near the Queen of Scots, she realises that she will face temptation to suppress the message if and when it comes.\nThe months pass by, and finally the message comes.\nMarjorie plans to send the messenger away and say nothing to Robin.\nHowever, the messenger tells her of the Queen\'s distress, and she suddenly remembers how her own mother, when dying, cried out for a priest.\nThough her religion has taught her that God will nonetheless save and forgive without a priest, she thinks of the guilt and heartlessness of one who would keep the priest away from a person near death.\nShe calls Robin, tells him that she nearly destroyed the letter, and prays that God will keep him safe.\nRobin goes to Fotheringay, where the Queen is to be executed.\nSir Amyas refuses to allow him to see her, but he hopes to be present at the execution, and to be in close enough proximity to give her absolution.\nWhen he arrives at the hall of execution, he sees that this will be impossible.\nHe is present as she is beheaded.\nA year later, Robin and a group of Catholics gather in Marjorie\'s parlour to discuss the latest news.\nmr Simpson has been captured and is awaiting trial.\nTo the dismay of Catholics, he is beginning to falter, and there is real fear that he will agree to go to an Anglican service to avoid execution.\nMarjorie hopes to visit him to encourage him to remain firm, but her friends urge her not to, as her work in harbouring priests is so valuable, and could be compromised if she draws attention on herself.\nA month later, Robin is at Padley with mr Ludlam and mr Garlick, who have also been ordained.\nThey each say Mass, and when the third Mass is over, they hear men coming to surround the house.\nThey hide in the priest holes previously built by Hugh Owen.\nmr Ludlam and mr Garlick are discovered and arrested.\nRobin is in a different priest hole, and is not found.\nWhen he feels it is safe to do so, he leaves the house and makes his way to Marjorie\'s home.\nShe arranges that he will ride away at one in the morning, to a place she has marked on a map.\nThere he will find a shepherd\'s hut, and will hide there for at least two weeks.\nFood and drink will be brought to him, and Marjorie will also send him news about the priests who were taken at Padley.\nRobin, in his hiding place, receives an unsigned letter from Marjorie, telling him that the authorities had put mr Ludlam and mr Garlick in gaol with mr Simpson, perhaps hoping that mr Simpson, having agreed to go to church so that his life might be spared, would convince them to do the same; but that the two other priests had managed to persuade mr Simpson to confess himself openly a Catholic again.\nThe three men had been tried, condemned, and executed.\nAt the trial, and at the gallows, mr Simpson had shown as much courage as his two companions.\nNearly a week later, Robin becomes aware that he is being watched.\nHe leaves the shepherd\'s hut, and makes his way back to Marjorie\'s house.\nAs he tells her how he felt he was being followed, they hear horses.\nHe plans to escape to the hills, but she urges him to hide in the place that Hugh Owen built some years before.\nHe slips into the hiding place, just as the magistrate, old mr Audrey arrives with his men.\nmr Audrey is extremely uncomfortable with his commission, especially as he was once friendly with the Manners family.\nThe thought that the priest, if there is a priest hiding there, might be his own son does not occur to him, but he hopes to do as little damage to the house as possible.\nMarjorie whispers to him urgently that he must leave at once, but faints before she can say more.\nEmbarrassed, mr Audrey tries to end the search as soon as possible, and is secretly relieved that nothing has been found.\nHis men, however, mention one more wall they want to test.\nTo his dismay, the men find a young bearded man behind the wall.\nThe old man turns sick and rushes forward, screaming, as he realises that he has just arrested his own son.\nRobin is in prison, and it is reported that Lord Shrewsbury has given orders that the prisoner must be dealt with sternly.\nIt is believed that mr Alban has a great deal more against him than the mere fact of being a priest.\nIt is thought that he was involved in the Babington plot, and that he had on at least one occasion had access to the Queen of Scots.\nIt is soon reported that mr Topcliffe, the torturer, has arrived in Derby on a special mission.\nMarjorie has the task of reporting this to her former lover, and breaks down, crying under the strain.\nHe gently tells her that God\'s grace is strong enough, reminds her that it was she who turned him to the priesthood, and says that she had surely known what this meant.\nHe thanks her, tells her he is at peace, and asks her to pray for him.\nRobin is severely tortured for three days, spending several hours in the rack-house each day, while being interrogated by Topcliffe.\nHe prays throughout the ordeal, and betrays nothing.\nHe is then tried and is sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.\nHe is offered his life if he will conform and go to church, but refuses.\nHe has one final interview with Marjorie, in which he urges her not to leave the country to become a nun, but rather to serve God by remaining in England and continuing her work at assisting priests.\nA large crowd gathers for the execution, as the exciting story of the young priest, taken by his own father in the house of his former fiancée, draws far more interest than an ordinary hanging.\nOld mr Audrey is believed to be still ill, not having fully recovered from his fit, and there are rumours that Marjorie will be present at the execution.\nRobin is drawn on a cart to the gallows, and a rope is passed around his neck, causing a moment of terror.\nHe makes a final speech, proclaiming his innocence of treason, and praying for Queen Elizabeth.\nHe then looks down from the ladder and sees a man in bare feet, writhing and embracing the rungs.\nHe looks beyond for some explanation, and sees a girl in a hooded cloak, who raises her eyes to his.\nLooking down at the man again, he sees a face "distorted with speechless entreaty", and recognises his father.\nHe smiles, leans forward, and speaks the words of absolution:.
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conversations.value: \nThey both come from recusant Catholic families in Derbyshire, but she is the more devout of the two.\nRobin\'s mother died when he was about seven, and his father has continued to practise the Catholic faith, despite having to pay heavy fines for refusing to attend services in the established Church of England.\nThe two families meet several times a year, when Mass is being secretly offered by a priest.\nThe story begins when Robin visits his fiancée and tells her that his father has announced that he can no longer tolerate the persecution and fines, that he will take the bread and wine in the Anglican church at Easter, and that Robin must do the same.\nMarjorie advises her lover to leave the area for Easter, so that his father will have time to accept that his son will not follow him.\nShe gives him a rosary which belonged to the recently executed priest Cuthbert Mayne, kisses him for the first time, and urges him to trust in God.\nWhen he arrives home, Robin finds his friend Anthony Babington waiting for him.\nAnthony is also a Catholic, fanatically devoted to the imprisoned, Catholic Queen of Scots.\nRobin tells Anthony of his troubles.\nLater, the two men are out riding, and pass three other men.\nOne of them, mr Garlick, recognises Anthony, having heard Mass in his house, and on being assured that Robin is also a Catholic, introduces the newly ordained mr Simpson and his travelling companion mr Ludlam to the two friends, telling them that mr Simpson will say Mass the following Sunday.\nRobin realises, as he goes home, that he must not mention this to his father.\nRobin\'s troubles at home increase, as he has to cope with his father\'s anger and sneers.\nMeanwhile, Marjorie is tormented by unexpected but persistent ideas that perhaps God is calling Robin to the priesthood.\nShe feels that if a love higher than hers is calling, she must not stand in the way, but is unsure whether such thoughts come from God or from her own imagination.\nShe talks to mr Simpson, but he is unable to advise her.\nShe is afraid to mention it to Robin, in case she has merely imagined this to be God\'s will, yet feels she should at least sow a seed in his mind.\nShe prays for guidance, thinking that "a broken heart and God\'s will done would be better than that God\'s will should be avoided and her own satisfied".\nOn Easter Sunday, after the two lovers have met secretly for Mass with other Catholics at Padley, home to the FitzHerbert family, Marjorie tells Robin her thoughts, promising that she will marry him if he wishes, but saying that if it is God\'s will that Robin should be a priest, she will not hold him for a day.\nHorrified, Robin accuses Marjorie of wanting to be rid of him.\nOn seeing how hurt she is, he kisses her and begs her forgiveness, but tells her that he cannot make that sacrifice.\nLater that day, mr Simpson, looking pale and speaking with a trembling voice, reads out to the group of Catholics a letter he has received, telling of the execution of a priest mr Nelson, and of a layman mr Sherwood, and how bravely they both faced martyrdom.\nBoth were hanged, drawn and quartered for their faith; mr Sherwood had also been racked several times.\nThe host, mr FitzHerbert, announces that the letter is from mr Ludlam, who has decided to go to Douai and study for the priesthood.\nThere have also been rumours that mr Garlick will go too.\nThe following week, Robin returns home, full of doubts and fears, and worried about his financial situation, as he has no money of his own, and his father has made it clear that he will not pay fines for Robin\'s refusal to attend church.\nOn his way home, he meets Anthony, who hints at some enterprise to restore the Catholic Faith to England, and urges Robin to join him and his friends.\nRobin\'s doubts increase: unsure of what Anthony\'s secret enterprise involves, hopeful that it may offer him a way out of his dilemma and enable him to marry Marjorie, yet unclear as to the morality of the enterprise, he tells Anthony he cannot decide immediately.\nWhen he goes back into the house, he faces his father, who angrily demands to know his intentions.\nRobin begs his father not to pressurise him, but to give him time; and his father gives him until Pentecost.\nThat night, after several failed attempts to sleep, Robin hears the noise of horses, is seized with curiosity, and goes out to see who is riding at that hour.\nHiding behind a wall, he sees mr Simpson setting out on one of his perilous journeys with two other men.\nThe sight of the priest risking his life to serve God and bring consolation to souls inspires Robin to make the decision against which he has been fighting.\nHe goes to his father\'s room, wakes the old man, and says he is ready to give his answer: "It is that I must go to Rheims and be a priest".\nA few days later, Robin comes to Marjorie, to say goodbye before setting out for Rheims.\nThey agree that he must always remember that he is to be a priest, and that if he comes to her house, it must just be as to any Catholic neighbour.\nMore than two years have passed.\nRobin is studying for the priesthood at Rheims, and Marjorie is living with her mother, her father having died.\nMarjorie\'s home is sometimes used to harbour priests.\nAnthony Babington visits her and tells her of some business he is involved with in London.\nHe has to go there to meet a priest called Ballard, but there will be many priests travelling together.\nHe urges Marjorie to come to London with him and his sister Alice to meet these priests, so that she may be in a better position to recognise and assist them if every they come to Derbyshire.\nHe mentions also that Robin will be coming.\nAlthough Robin will not be a priest for another five years, such students are sometimes sent back to England temporarily as servants, to learn how to avoid the Queen\'s men.\nSome of Anthony\'s business he does not mention to Marjorie.\nHe has become increasingly impatient with the thought of using prayer alone to combat the persecution of Catholics, and is involved in some conspiracy with Ballard and others; but most of his friends whom he has attempted to influence have drawn back and a priest has even told him he is on dangerous ground.\nMarjorie agrees to come.\nIn London, Marjorie meets Father Campion, one of the most hunted priests in the kingdom, famous for his preaching, who had entered England in the guise of a jewel merchant.\nCampion explains his position of mixing boldly with the crowd to avoid suspicion, rather than hiding behind locked doors.\nHe arranges to go with the others to see the sights of London the next day, and they see the Tower of London, and the notorious priest-hunter and torturer Richard Topcliffe.\nThey also catch a glimpse of Queen Elizabeth, of whom Campion speaks with gentleness and loyalty.\nMarjorie overhears some disagreement between Campion and Ballard, which seems to be on political matters.\nFinally, Campion discusses the content of his forthcoming pamphlet, "Decem Rationes" ("Ten Reasons"), which expostulated about the validity of the Anglican Church.\nWhen Robin arrives, Marjorie is careful to address him as "Mr.\nAudrey".\nShe asks him for prayers and advice, saying that she thinks of him as a priest already, and that although her duty is clearly to remain with her mother at present, she has wondered if she should leave the country to serve God as a nun, in the event of her mother\'s death.\nRobin promises to pray for her, but reminds her that he is not yet a priest, and gives her no advice.\nA year later, Marjorie is in her home with her sick mother, thinking of Father Campion and of the numerous escapes that he is reported to have had.\nAnthony Babington arrives, and furiously tells Marjorie that Campion, Sherwine and Brian were hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn three days previously, that they had been racked continuously, and that they all died praying for the Queen.\nThe next day, Marjorie realises that her mother is dying, and sends some men to find a priest.\nIn the evening, her mother\'s condition worsens.\nMarjorie tells her mother that there is no priest, says that God will accept her sorrow, and urges her to make an Act of Contrition.\nHer mother cries out for a priest, and Marjorie reminds her that priests are forbidden in the kingdom.\nShe says that three priests have just been executed for being priests, and tells her mother to say, "Edmund Campion, pray for me".\nMarjorie has a sudden, strong sensation that Campion is in the room; her mother smiles, looks around with no fear, and dies.\nmr Simpson arrives two hours later.\nMarjorie, calm and controlled, tells him that it is all over.\nShe tells him of the martyrdom of Father Campion and his two companions.\nmr Simpson is seized with a fear that shames and disgusts him, but is unable to overcome it.\nMarjorie tells him that she will invite Alice Babington to come and live with her, and hints that she will now be able to do more to assist fugitive priests.\nThe following summer, Marjorie meets a young Catholic carpenter called Hugh Owen.\nHe is building a special hiding place for priests at Padley, and comes to Marjorie\'s house to do the same.\nHe tells her of how much he was inspired by Campion, and that he thinks he will die for his faith some day.\nSome time later, Marjorie falls from a horse near Robin\'s old home, twisting her foot.\nRobin\'s father takes her into the house, and insists that she must dine there.\nIn a private conversation, he asks when Robin will be ordained, and she tells him that if Robin has not told him that, she cannot.\nHe understands, but tells her that he is now a magistrate, and that Robin will have no mercy from him.\nHe warns her that the authorities are aware of some of the movements of Catholics such as the FitzHerberts.\nWhen she asks why he is telling her this, he says that he was friend to the FitzHerberts before he was a magistrate.\nHe becomes angry when she mentions Robin, telling the old man that it is not too late, and that his duty to God is higher than his duty as a magistrate.\nRobin is now a priest, and has returned to England, under the name "Mr.\nAlban".\nHe meets Anthony Babington again; the latter confides to him, as to a priest, the details of the enterprise at which he had only hinted some years before.\nAnthony and a number of others, including Ballard, intend to kill the Queen and to set the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, on the throne.\nHe tells how they have been helped by Gilbert Gifford, and how they send messages to Queen Mary, in code.\nRobin begs him to give up the plot, saying that it is against God\'s law.\nHe is uneasy at the plan for practical reasons, too, saying that too much hangs on mr Gifford, who may not be as trustworthy as Anthony thinks.\nRobin tells Anthony that he cannot give him absolution as long as Anthony intends to kill Queen Elizabeth.\nHe says that as Anthony was speaking to him as a priest, he will regard the conversation as under the seal of confession, but warns Anthony not to come to him the next day as if he knows it as a man, as it would be his duty to inform the authorities.\nA few days later, Robin receives a letter from Anthony, saying that he has been betrayed and is being watched at every point, and that mr Gifford has been a traitor all along.\nA letter to Queen Mary is enclosed, and Anthony begs Robin to deliver it to her, or if that proves impossible, to memorise the contents and deliver it orally.\nRobin destroys the letter.\nAnthony and his companions are arrested soon after.\nRobin makes his way to Chartley Hall, where Queen Mary is held captive.\nHe speaks to her apothecary, a Catholic called mr Bourgoign, and tells him that he is a priest, and has a message for the Queen.\nSuspicious at first, mr Bourgoign is finally convinced when Robin offers to confide the message to him and ride away again.\nHe urges Robin to stay and to find some way to have a private interview with the Queen, who longs to make her confession, knowing that she will soon be executed.\nThey decide that Robin, who has some skill as a herbalist, will be presented to Sir Amyas Paulet, the Queen\'s jailer, as one who may be able to help the Queen\'s health.\nSir Amyas reluctantly allows Robin to see the Queen alone for a few minutes, and Robin hears her confession and gives her Holy Communion.\nThe Queen declares herself to be completely innocent of the plot against Elizabeth.\nSome months have passed.\nAnthony Babington and his companions have been executed.\nRobin returns to Derbyshire, and is received by Marjorie.\nHe hears confessions and says Mass at her house.\nMarjorie knows that mr Bourgoign is likely to send for Robin again to hear Queen Mary\'s confession before her execution, and that the message will be sent through her.\nKnowing that there can hardly be a greater danger for a priest than to risk arrest near the Queen of Scots, she realises that she will face temptation to suppress the message if and when it comes.\nThe months pass by, and finally the message comes.\nMarjorie plans to send the messenger away and say nothing to Robin.\nHowever, the messenger tells her of the Queen\'s distress, and she suddenly remembers how her own mother, when dying, cried out for a priest.\nThough her religion has taught her that God will nonetheless save and forgive without a priest, she thinks of the guilt and heartlessness of one who would keep the priest away from a person near death.\nShe calls Robin, tells him that she nearly destroyed the letter, and prays that God will keep him safe.\nRobin goes to Fotheringay, where the Queen is to be executed.\nSir Amyas refuses to allow him to see her, but he hopes to be present at the execution, and to be in close enough proximity to give her absolution.\nWhen he arrives at the hall of execution, he sees that this will be impossible.\nHe is present as she is beheaded.\nA year later, Robin and a group of Catholics gather in Marjorie\'s parlour to discuss the latest news.\nmr Simpson has been captured and is awaiting trial.\nTo the dismay of Catholics, he is beginning to falter, and there is real fear that he will agree to go to an Anglican service to avoid execution.\nMarjorie hopes to visit him to encourage him to remain firm, but her friends urge her not to, as her work in harbouring priests is so valuable, and could be compromised if she draws attention on herself.\nA month later, Robin is at Padley with mr Ludlam and mr Garlick, who have also been ordained.\nThey each say Mass, and when the third Mass is over, they hear men coming to surround the house.\nThey hide in the priest holes previously built by Hugh Owen.\nmr Ludlam and mr Garlick are discovered and arrested.\nRobin is in a different priest hole, and is not found.\nWhen he feels it is safe to do so, he leaves the house and makes his way to Marjorie\'s home.\nShe arranges that he will ride away at one in the morning, to a place she has marked on a map.\nThere he will find a shepherd\'s hut, and will hide there for at least two weeks.\nFood and drink will be brought to him, and Marjorie will also send him news about the priests who were taken at Padley.\nRobin, in his hiding place, receives an unsigned letter from Marjorie, telling him that the authorities had put mr Ludlam and mr Garlick in gaol with mr Simpson, perhaps hoping that mr Simpson, having agreed to go to church so that his life might be spared, would convince them to do the same; but that the two other priests had managed to persuade mr Simpson to confess himself openly a Catholic again.\nThe three men had been tried, condemned, and executed.\nAt the trial, and at the gallows, mr Simpson had shown as much courage as his two companions.\nNearly a week later, Robin becomes aware that he is being watched.\nHe leaves the shepherd\'s hut, and makes his way back to Marjorie\'s house.\nAs he tells her how he felt he was being followed, they hear horses.\nHe plans to escape to the hills, but she urges him to hide in the place that Hugh Owen built some years before.\nHe slips into the hiding place, just as the magistrate, old mr Audrey arrives with his men.\nmr Audrey is extremely uncomfortable with his commission, especially as he was once friendly with the Manners family.\nThe thought that the priest, if there is a priest hiding there, might be his own son does not occur to him, but he hopes to do as little damage to the house as possible.\nMarjorie whispers to him urgently that he must leave at once, but faints before she can say more.\nEmbarrassed, mr Audrey tries to end the search as soon as possible, and is secretly relieved that nothing has been found.\nHis men, however, mention one more wall they want to test.\nTo his dismay, the men find a young bearded man behind the wall.\nThe old man turns sick and rushes forward, screaming, as he realises that he has just arrested his own son.\nRobin is in prison, and it is reported that Lord Shrewsbury has given orders that the prisoner must be dealt with sternly.\nIt is believed that mr Alban has a great deal more against him than the mere fact of being a priest.\nIt is thought that he was involved in the Babington plot, and that he had on at least one occasion had access to the Queen of Scots.\nIt is soon reported that mr Topcliffe, the torturer, has arrived in Derby on a special mission.\nMarjorie has the task of reporting this to her former lover, and breaks down, crying under the strain.\nHe gently tells her that God\'s grace is strong enough, reminds her that it was she who turned him to the priesthood, and says that she had surely known what this meant.\nHe thanks her, tells her he is at peace, and asks her to pray for him.\nRobin is severely tortured for three days, spending several hours in the rack-house each day, while being interrogated by Topcliffe.\nHe prays throughout the ordeal, and betrays nothing.\nHe is then tried and is sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.\nHe is offered his life if he will conform and go to church, but refuses.\nHe has one final interview with Marjorie, in which he urges her not to leave the country to become a nun, but rather to serve God by remaining in England and continuing her work at assisting priests.\nA large crowd gathers for the execution, as the exciting story of the young priest, taken by his own father in the house of his former fiancée, draws far more interest than an ordinary hanging.\nOld mr Audrey is believed to be still ill, not having fully recovered from his fit, and there are rumours that Marjorie will be present at the execution.\nRobin is drawn on a cart to the gallows, and a rope is passed around his neck, causing a moment of terror.\nHe makes a final speech, proclaiming his innocence of treason, and praying for Queen Elizabeth.\nHe then looks down from the ladder and sees a man in bare feet, writhing and embracing the rungs.\nHe looks beyond for some explanation, and sees a girl in a hooded cloak, who raises her eyes to his.\nLooking down at the man again, he sees a face "distorted with speechless entreaty", and recognises his father.\nHe smiles, leans forward, and speaks the words of absolution:.
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conversations.value: Come Rack! Come Rope!
  There should be no sight more happy than a young man riding to meet his love. His eyes should shine, his lips should sing; he should slap his mare upon her shoulder and call her his darling. The puddles upon his way should be turned to pure gold, and the stream that runs beside him should chatter her name.
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conversations.value: It was an hour before they could get the full tale out of her. They took her upstairs and made her sit down, for already a couple of faces peeped from the buttery, and the servants would have gathered in another five minutes; and together they forced her to eat and drink something, for she had not tasted food since her arrival at the inn yesterday; and so, little by little, they drew the story out.
  Then she burst out crying again, lamenting the horrible state of the prison, as it had been described to her, and demanding to know where God's justice was in allowing His faithful servants to be so tormented and harried.... She had met her once at Babington House, when she was still Elizabeth Westley, but had thought little or nothing of her since. She was a pale little creature, fair-haired and timorous, and had now a hunted look of misery in her eyes that was very piteous to see. It was plain they had done right in coming: this woman would be of little service to her husband.
  Then Alice began again to soothe her gently, to tell her that her husband was in no great danger as yet, that he was well known for his loyalty, and to do her best to answer the girl's pitiful questions. And Marjorie sat back and considered.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Marjorie, watched.
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conversations.value: It was an hour before they could get the full tale out of her. They took her upstairs and made her sit down, for already a couple of faces peeped from the buttery, and the servants would have gathered in another five minutes; and together they forced her to eat and drink something, for she had not tasted food since her arrival at the inn yesterday; and so, little by little, they drew the story out. 
  Then she burst out crying again, lamenting the horrible state of the prison, as it had been described to her, and demanding to know where God's justice was in allowing His faithful servants to be so tormented and harried.... 
  Marjorie watched her closely. She had met her once at Babington House, when she was still Elizabeth Westley, but had thought little or nothing of her since. She was a pale little creature, fair-haired and timorous, and had now a hunted look of misery in her eyes that was very piteous to see. It was plain they had done right in coming: this woman would be of little service to her husband. 
  Then Alice began again to soothe her gently, to tell her that her husband was in no great danger as yet, that he was well known for his loyalty, and to do her best to answer the girl's pitiful questions. And Marjorie sat back and considered.
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conversations.value: He only awoke once again, after the strangling and the darkness had passed. He could see nothing, nor hear, except a heavy murmuring noise, not unpleasant. But there was one last Pain not into which all others had passed, keen and cold like water, and it was about his heart.