"Oh yes."
"Then he shall pay dearly for it. Who is it?"
"Monseigneur du Fou."
"Oh, that alters the case," said the judge.
"But justice?" said she.
"I said the case, not the justice of it," replied the judge. "I must know how the affair occurred."
Then the girl related naively how she was arranging the young lord's ruffles in his wardrobe, when he began to play with her skirt, and she turned round saying—
"Go on with you!"
"You have no case," said the judge, "for by that speech he thought that you gave him leave to go on. Ha! ha!"
Then she declared that she had defended herself, weeping and crying out, and that that constitutes an assault.