“Oh! no; it is better to have your enemies near, that you may watch them. But, what makes you think he is our enemy?”
“Well! first he came disguised as a lackey, then he put on an advocate’s dress, and I am sure he is no more an advocate than he is a lackey, for I saw a long rapier under his cloak. Then he avowed he had a mission from the king!”
“From Herod, as I call him.”
“Sardanapalus.”
“Bravo!”
“Ah! I see we understand each other.”
“Then we are to remain here?”
“I should think so.”
“Not a word about my relation.”
“Of course not.”