"The same, your Majesty."
"So near us, and escaped--but what credence would you place in him?"
"Every credence, may it please your Majesty. I believe him to be incapable of a lie."
"A traitor, like him!"
"A traitor to your Majesty, but most true to his Catholic Majesty, King James that was. But if I venture to point out to your Majesty, the enclosures prove that Lieutenant Vanslyperken's word is not of much value. He, at least, is a double traitor."
"Yes, a little hanging will do him no harm--you are sure this is his writing?"
"There can be no doubt of it, your Majesty, I have compared it."
"You will see to this, my lord: and now to the syndic."
"He has, as your Majesty will perceive, been grossly deceived, and suspected without reason."
"And the woman?"