Recorder. Yanetta Etchepare!
Enter Yanetta.
Scene IX:—Mouzon, recorder, Yanetta.
Mouzon. Step forward. Now, Madame, I shall not administer the oath to you, since you are the wife of the accused. But none the less I beg you most urgently to tell the truth. I warn you that an untruth on your part might compel me to accuse you of complicity with your husband in the crime of which he is accused and force me to have you arrested at once.
Yanetta. I'm not afraid. I can't be my husband's accomplice because my husband isn't guilty.
Mouzon. That is not my opinion. I will say further: you know a great deal more about this matter than you care to tell.
Yanetta. I? That's infamous.
Mouzon. Come, come, no shouting! I don't say you took a direct part in the murder, I say it is highly probable that you knew of the murder, perhaps advised it, and that you have profited by it. That would be enough to place you in the dock beside your husband at the assizes. My treatment of you will depend on the sincerity of your answers to my questions. As you do or do not tell me the truth I shall either set you at liberty or have you arrested. Now you can't say that I haven't warned you! And now, if you please, inform me whether you persist in your first statement, in which you affirm that Etchepare stopped at home on the night of Ascension Day.
Yanetta. I do.