The truth wasn't so bad after all. 'I think they are interesting,' she said, finally. 'They are so different from anyone else. So peculiar. But they are not ninehammers, they are formidable in the extreme; Cromwell was only a prelude, a practice. This Penn controls an estate that is stupefyingly vast. New Jersey is a place of Quakers, too, and different sorts of Puritans are all over Massachusetts. Gomer Bolstrood used to say the most startling things . . . overthrowing monarchy was the least of it. He said that Negroes and white men are equal before God and that all slavery everywhere must be done away with, and that his people would never let up until everyone saw it their way. ‘First we'll get the Quakers on our side, for they are rich,' he said, ‘then the other Nonconformists, then the Anglicans, then the Catholics, then all of Christendom.''