"Ay."
"And she?"
"Nay, I know not."
"She is a good maid?"
"There never lived a sweeter."
"Ha, so, fair son. The Virgin guard her. Now, do you finish your tale."
Sir James sat speechless until Hugh came to the account of the scene in the torture-chamber and Comnenus's question about the Treasure of the Bucoleon.
"And then?" he pressed.
"He would not believe me when I told him I knew not even what it was."
"And you did not?"