"To my father."
"How, and when?"
"He used to come to the Castle secretly from time to time to get money from me, and if I hadn't any to give him he pinched and beat me."
"Why did you not call out for help?"
"Because it was at night, Herr; and if he had been found there they would have flogged him."
"Go on."
"And so he came soon after ... after the expedition, I mean ... and asked me to do all sorts of things. I was to get money from the gnädiger Herr ... or to turn out his pockets when no one was looking; and to be left in peace, I fetched the bag the French General had given me. And when he saw the moonlight shine on the coin that was in it, he was half mad----"
She paused abruptly.
"Well?"
"Must I say it, Herr?"