"What conduct, your Holiness?"
"The terrible conduct which formed the basis of your plans on returning to Rome."
"You mean ... what the newspapers talked about?"
The Pope bent his head.
"A conspiracy to kill the King?"
Again the Pope bent his head.
"You believed that, your Holiness?"
"Unhappily I was compelled to do so."
"And she ... do you suppose she believed it?"
"She believed you were engaged in conspiracies. There was nothing else she could believe in the light of what you had said and written."