"Why, what other could there be?"
"What other truly? And after he left with the commandant—why did you not, then, inform me?"
"You remember you had something important, from the King, to consider!" hastily.
"More important than this?"
"He was going to be locked up," was the best reply she could make.
"And in the morning set free!"
She did not answer.
"And yet, you gave the word that enabled us to capture him at the wheel-house! How, by the way, came you there—in the wheel-house?"
"I saw him from the abbot's bridge; heard him tell the watchman he had a message to deliver at your palace, and followed."
"Again feeling solicitude for me?"