"Not then."
"And now?"
"Nothing but what was aroused in my mind by what I have just told you."
"Master Roger Trevanion," she said, rising from her seat and facing me, "you tried to persuade me not to go to that man's house."
"I did."
"And I persisted in going. I did so for two reasons."
"And they?"
"One was that you should be able to claim the price of your hire."
"Do not taunt me with that."