“Yes, Mynheer.”
“Certainly this news will not please His Highness.”
“M. Fagel feared so.”
Jerome Beverningh twisted his thin mouth.
“He risks His Highness’ favour. Was he—frightened?”
“M. de Witt, I think, over-persuaded him.”
“And M. de Witt is the head of the Government,” was the dry answer.
“Though every day more unpopular, Mynheer.”
“But he had the Assembly with him in this?”
“He carried all before him, Mynheer; there was scarcely a protest.”