OLAVUS. Rather stupid, however. Did you notice how I trapped them?
ISRAEL. That was good work. How did you learn to do it?
OLAVUS. By long observation of innumerable human beings I have been led to conclude at last that vanity the primal sin and mother of all the vices. To get the truth out of criminals, I have merely to set them boasting.
ISRAEL. What wisdom! What wisdom! And you are not yet an old man!—But there are modest people, too, and out of these you cannot get the truth, according to what you have just said.
OLAVUS. Modest people boast of their modesty, so that is all one.
ISRAEL. [Looking attentively at him] If you'll pardon me—Master Olavus was your name, I think? You cannot be Olavus Petri?
OLAVUS. I am.
ISRAEL. [Surprised] Who carried out the Reformation?
OLAVUS. I am that man.
ISRAEL. And who was subsequently tried for high treason on suspicion of having known about a plot against the King's life?