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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: Trenchard in despair at being separated from him at a time when there
seemed to be every chance that such a separation might be eternal.
Monmouth and Ferguson may have conceived they did a wise thing in
removing a man who was instinctively spoiling for a little sword-play
with my Lord Grey. It is odds that had he remained, the brewing storm
between the pair would have come to a head. Had it done so, it is more
than likely, from what we know of Mr. Wilding's accomplishments, that he
had given Lord Grey his quietus. And had that happened, it is to be
inferred from history that it is possible the Duke of Monmouth's
rebellion might have had a less disastrous issue.
CHAPTER XVI
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