"I? No."
"So I thought, for you had other things in your mind than watching my wife; and you have committed a great wrong against me and my house, Troilo, a wrong which I know not how to forgive you. But perhaps the fault was not entirely on your side, it was rather in a great measure my own, for I, knowing you to be young, desirous of glory, and of a noble heart, should have allowed you to attend to other things, rather than be the eunuch of a palace."
"And does she then refuse to reveal the name?"
"Neither by prayer, nor threat, nor hope of pardon was I able to induce her to reveal it."
"Indeed this is a grave fault.... And you tried all means to make her speak?"
"All."
"There, you see then how difficult it is to give advice when one is ignorant of all the particulars:—if I had known her obstinacy in this particular before, I would have advised you differently."
"Indeed!"
"Rather the contrary."