"Yes."
"Shameless obstinacy! Look at this poor woman, whom your cruelty has reduced to a state of imbecility. Do you not know her?"
"I know nothing of her."
"You never lived with her?"
"Never."
"You will even go so far as to declare that you never saw her before to-day?"
"Yes; I never saw her before to-day."
"To question you farther would be useless. You have shown yourself in your true colours."
To which Gautran made answer: "I can't help my colours. They're not of my choosing."
The Widow Joseph was next called.