...who is both touched, amused and a little, a very little, alarmed by Southampton's parting assurance to Nick that he'll be fine with Shakespeare: "He's an honest man and his son would be about the same age as you"? Sub-text, at least to my mind, "Whatever Kit Marlowe's designs may have been -- and, for all I know and really am not asking, suppose I got told? his actions -- Shakespeare really, really isn't like that"?