“No such thing. I have owned nothing. As I told you before, you are welcome to put what construction you please on my actions.”
“Sir Norman Kingsley, this is nonsensical equivocation! You own you came to hear and see?”
“Well!”
“Well, hearing and seeing constitute spying, do they not? Therefore, you are a spy.”
“I confess it looks like it. What next?”
“Need you ask What is the fate of all spies?”
“No matter what they are in other places, I am pretty certain what they are here!”
“And that is?”
“A room in black, and a chop with an axe—the Earl of Gloucester's fate, in a word!”
“You have said it! Have you any reason why such a sentence should not be pronounced on you?”