ing you; but you are always neighbourly and
kind.

Widow Greely: Why wouldn't we come? And
here is the wash I brought with me. I tell you
the Captain at the Castle does not get his shirts
made up like that.

Canavan: The youngster Lord Essex left in
charge? I believe he is a kinsman of my own.

Widow Deeny: I heard them saying that. He
Englished his name to Headley it seems, he being
a genteel young man. Canavan, one head, Head-
ley. They say he has shirts and laces for every
day of the year.

Canavan: (Sitting down and motioning them to
do the same.) Well, it is the reason of me sending
for you, I am wishful to ask for your advice.

Widow Greely: Do so, and it is likely we will
give it in a way that will be pleasing to yourself.

Canavan: Now, when there is a course of
action put before any man, there is but the one
question to put and the one to answer; and that
question is: Is it safe?

Widow Greely: You were always wary, and
why wouldn't you be wary?

Canavan: Now, when Lord Essex came besieg-
ing the Castle above, where did he get his oats
and his straw and his flour from but from myself?
I treated him well, and he treated me middling
well. I made no complaint about payment--I

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