"Are you ready to answer my questions?"
"Let me hear them first; I shall then see whether I ought to reply."
"Who sent you here?"
"No one."
"You came then of your own accord?"
"Yes."
"You lie!"
Maurice made a desperate effort to disengage his hands, but it was in vain.
"I never lie," said he.
"In either case, whether you came of your own accord or were sent, you are a spy."