“Yes.”
“You ought to know how far he was connected with this affair.”
“I do not wish to know.”
“But you know the object of these nightly excursions of Madame de la Motte and Oliva?”
“Of that also I wish to be ignorant.”
“Sir, I only wish to ask you one more question. Have you proofs of the correspondence of Madame de la Motte and Oliva?”
“Plenty.”
“What are they?”
“Notes which Madame de la Motte used to throw over to Oliva with a cross-bow. Several of them did not reach their destination, and were picked up either by myself, or my servants, in the street.”
“Sir, you will be ready to produce them, if called upon?”