Say it's not true.

BARON

What is not true?

VERA

What David said. It was the mob that massacred—you had no hand in it.

BARON [Sullenly]

I was there with my soldiers.

DAVID [Leaning, pale, against a chair, hisses]

And you looked on with that cold face of hate—while my mother—my sister—

BARON [Sullenly]