As you were saying... ?" "I have but little more to say, sir....

But lest there should even now be lurking in your mind a vague hope that, having written this letter, you could easily in the future deny its authorship, let me tell you this: my measures are well taken, there will be witnesses to your writing of it....

You will sit here in this room, unfettered, uncoerced in any way, and the money spoken of in the letter will be handed over to you by my colleague, after a few suitable words spoken by him, and you will take the money from him, Sir Percy...

and the witnesses will see you take it after having seen you write the letter...

they will understand that you are being PAID by the French government for giving information anent royalist plots in this country and in England...