"I shall shatter your skull if you do not immediately confess your crimes!"
Kidda believed she read the decree of her death in my face. She grew livid and murmured:
"Kill me not! I shall speak!"
"You are Kidda, the Bohemian girl?"
"Yes—I am Kidda."
"You were formerly at Mayence—and, as the price of your favors, you exacted of Victorin that he dishonor my wife Ellen?"
"Yes—that is so!"
"You were acting under orders of Tetrik?"
"No, I never spoke to him."
"Whose orders were you, then, following?"