"Yes; and if he tells you"—
"Well?"
"Well, I shall be ready to admit that I have been mistaken."
"But in case it was a woman, we cannot ask."
"A woman?"
"Yes."
"A woman who killed two of your guards and perhaps mortally wounded Monsieur de Maurevel!"
"Oh! oh!" said the King, "this is serious. Was there any bloodshed?"
"Three men were stretched on the floor."
"And the one who reduced them to this state?"