“So it is, your Highness.”
“And have you any proofs of their guilt?”
“No, Monseigneur, the guilty woman——”
“The guilty woman, Sir?”
“I ought to say, the woman who claims the tulip, Monseigneur, is here in the room close by.”
“And what do you think of her?”
“I think, Monseigneur, that the bait of a hundred thousand guilders may have tempted her.”
“And so she claims the tulip?”
“Yes Monseigneur.”
“And what proof does she offer?”