Perez held his pen ready to write, moving it mechanically now and then as if he were writing in the air, and staring at the fire, absorbed in his own thoughts, though his ear was on the alert.
"You refuse to admit that you found your daughter and Don John together, then ?" The King spoke with an interrogation.
"I did not find them together," answered Mendoza.

"I have said so." He was becoming exasperated under the protracted cross-examination.
"You have not said so.

My memory is very good, but if it should fail we have everything written down.

I believe you merely refused to answer when I asked if you knew of their meeting--which meant that you did know of it.

Is that it, Perez ?" "Exactly so, Sire." The Secretary had already found the place among his notes.
"Do you persistently refuse to admit that you had positive evidence of your daughter's guilt before the murder ?" "I will not admit that, Sire, for it would not be true." "Your daughter has given her evidence since," said the King, holding up the folded note, and fixing his eyes at last on his victim's face.