"I can but guide your memory, my daughter, to the events of the fateful night when Don Miguel was murdered."
"You were there, in the Audience Chamber, were you not?"
"I was there," she repeated mechanically.
"With Don Miguel de Suarez, who, taking advantage of the late hour and the loneliness of this part of the Palace . . . insulted you . . . or . . ."
"Let us say that he insulted me. . . ."
"His Grace then came upon the scene?"
"Just as Your Eminence describes it."
"And 'twas to defend your honour that the Duke of Wessex killed Don Miguel."
"To defend mine honour the Duke of Wessex killed Don Miguel."