Now, Drake, twenty years ago, would have been the first to admit that most of Cromwell's work had been rolled back by the Restoration. But at least Charles II was a Protestant – or had the decency to pretend to be one. So Daniel oughtn't to make too much of an omen out of this walk – God forbid he should start thinking like Isaac, and find occult symbols in every little thing. But he couldn't help imagining that time was being rolled back even farther now, even past the reign of Elizabeth, all the way back to the days of Bloody Mary. In those days John Waterhouse, Drake's grandfather, had fled over the sea to Geneva, which was a hornets' nest of Calvinists. Only after Elizabeth was on the throne had he returned, accompanied by his son Calvin – Drake's father – and many other English and Scottish men who thought the way he did about religion.