"We--Sir Rowland here and I--had reason to suspect that he was awaiting such a letter." "Tell us your reasons, sir, if we are to credit you," said the Duke, and it was plain he mocked the prisoner.

It was, moreover, a request that staggered Richard.

Still, he sought to find a reason that should sound plausible.
"We inferred it from certain remarks that Mr.Wilding let fall in our presence." "Tell us the remarks, sir," the Duke insisted.
"Indeed, I do not call his precise words to mind, Your Grace.

But they were such that we suspicioned him." "And you would have me believe that hearing words which awoke in you such grave suspicions, you kept your suspicions and straightway forgot the words.

You're but an indifferent liar." Trenchard, who was standing by the long table, leaned forward now.
"It might be well, an it please Your Grace," said he, "to waive the point, and let us come to those matters which are of greater moment.