Pray, if you have no entanglements, how comes it that you have a lady's letter in your glove ?" "I cannot tell whether it was a lady's letter or a man's." "Have you not read it ?" "Yes." "And you refused to show it to me on the ground that it was a woman's secret ?" "I had not read it then.

It was not signed, and it might well have been written by a man." Don John watched the King's face.

It was for from improbable, he thought, that the King had caused it to be written, or had written it himself, that he supposed his brother to have read it, and desired to regain possession of it as soon as possible.

Philip seemed to hesitate whether to continue his cross-examination or not, and he looked at the door leading into the antechamber, suddenly wondering why Mendoza had not returned.

Then he began to speak again, but he did not wish, angry though he was, to face alone a second refusal to deliver the document to him.