"You have told the truth?"
"In every point, madame."
"Have you taken down the questions and answers, master clerk?"
The clerk bowed.
"Sign, monsieur," said the princess.
Canolles took the pen with the air of a man who does not understand the purpose of a command, but obeys out of deference to the rank of the person who makes it, and signed his name with a smile.
"'Tis well, monsieur," said the princess; "you may now retire."
Canolles saluted his judges once more, and withdrew with the same grace and freedom from constraint, and with no manifestation of surprise or curiosity.
The door was no sooner closed behind him than the princess rose.
"Well, messieurs?" said she with a questioning accent.