"How could I be aware of it?"
"She might have confided in you?"
"In me! a member of the section of the Thermopyles? A likely story!"
"Notwithstanding, you have sometimes been seen with her."
"I might have been seen with her often."
"Did you know that she was an aristocrat?"
"I knew her as the wife of a master-tanner."
"But her husband did not in reality follow the business which he pretended to."
"Of that I am ignorant; her husband was not one of my friends."
"Tell us what you know of this husband."