“I humbly crave your pardon, I really did not know——”
“Pshaw! you ought to know!”
“As you please, sire.”
“Tell me at once, has the lady, who was brought here to-night, been treated with respect and consideration or not? Answer me that.”
“I can assure you, sire, upon that point, that she has been treated with the greatest possible respect and attention; and I can further say that I have been informed that she is rather impatient under her imprisonment.”
“Ah, indeed!”
“Even so, sire.”
“Has she made any attempt to escape?”
“I cannot say that, sire; but she has, in terms of indignant remonstrance, demanded her freedom, and proclaimed that she was innocent of all crime.”
“Humph! Did she talk of her father?”