Gab.‍Do not think

I'll honour you so much as save your throat

From the Ravenstone[182] by choking you myself.

Iden. I thank you for the respite: but there are

Those who have greater need of it than me.180

Ulr. Unriddle this vile wrangling, or——

Gab.‍At once, then,

The Baron has been robbed, and upon me

This worthy personage has deigned to fix

His kind suspicions—me! whom he ne'er saw