kiwimidnight:

James Flint in every episode:
XXVIII.  Madness is such a hard thing to define, which makes it such an easy label
to affix to one’s enemies. Once it had been applied to Thomas,
once our relationship had been exposed, defiled, scandalized… everything ended.
There were times that I was persuaded to sue for peace since then,
but that was the day that on some level I knew that England was broken… and that sooner or later a good man must resist it.