Under a cynical recklessness he veiled a rare cunning and a constant suspicion; enjoying in that respect a combination of apparently opposite qualities, which I have known no other man to possess in an equal degree, unless it might be his late majesty, Henry the Great.

A child would have suspected the priest; a veteran might have been taken in by the Vidame.
And indeed the priest's eyes presently sank.

"Our bargain is to go for nothing ?" he muttered sullenly.
"I know of no bargain," quoth the Vidame.

"And I have no time to lose, splitting hairs here.

Set it down to what you like.