He says that the time is uneasy, and that we are part of it. Mrs. Cromwell: There's a man's house. It's enough surely. Elizabeth: I know. But Oliver must be doing. You know how when he took the magistracy he would listen to none of us. He knows best. Mrs. Cromwell: What time is John coming? Elizabeth: By nightfall he said. Henry Ireton is coming with him. Mrs. Cromwell: John Hampden is like that, too. He excites the boy. Elizabeth: Yes, but mother, you will do nothing with Oliver by thinking of him as a boy;