"If you punish him for this speech you will injure both of us and do no good to the King."
"It's true."
"Take him in a serious conspiracy, and you will be doing us no harm and the King some service."
"No doubt."
"You say there is a mystery about David Rossi, and you want to know who he is, who his father was, and where he spent the years he was away from Rome."
"I would certainly give a good deal to know."
"You want to know what vile refugee in London filled him with his fancies, what conspiracies he is hatching, what secret societies he belongs to, and, above all, what his plans and schemes are, and whether he is in league with the Vatican."
She spoke so rapidly that the words sputtered out of her quivering lips.
"Well?"
"Well, I will find it all out for you."