"You are Donna Roma Volonna, daughter of the late Prince Prospero Volonna?"
"I am."
"You were born in England and lived there as a child?"
"Yes."
"Although you were young when you lost your father, you have a perfect recollection both of him and of his associates?"
"Of some of his associates."
"One of them was a young man who lived in his house as a kind of adopted son?"
"Yes."
"You are aware that your father was unhappily involved in political troubles?"
"I am."