This is the trouble.

The lady Heliodore here is my affianced wife.

We were speaking together in this garden as the affianced do.

The Empress, who, unseen by us, was hidden behind those trees, overheard our talk, which, for reasons best known to herself, for in it there was naught of treason or any matter of the State, made her so angry that she set her servants on to kill me.
Thinking them murderers or robbers, I defended myself, and there they lie, save one, who fled away wounded.

Then the Empress appeared and ordered me to kill the lady Heliodore.