Unless I still had faith in you and was sure of your great love for our Josephine, I would have lied to you.
You were told that you would meet with strange things at Adare House.
You gave your oath that you would make no effort to discover the secret which is guarded here.

And this early, the first night, you threaten me at the end of a pistol!" Like fire Jean's eyes were burning now.

He gripped the edges of the table with his thin fingers, and his voice came with a sudden hissing fury.
"By the great God in Heaven, M'sieur, are you accusing me of turning traitor to the Master and to her, to our Josephine, whom I have watched and guarded and prayed for since the day she first opened her eyes to the world?
Do you accuse me of that--I, Jean Jacques Croisset, who would die a thousand deaths by torture that she might be freed from her own suffering ?" He leaned over the table as if about to spring.

And then, slowly, his fingers relaxed, the fire died out of his eyes, and he sank back in his chair.

In the face of the half-breed's outburst Philip had remained speechless.