"I perfectly understand.

You think yourself the destined savior of Rome and the deviser of priceless plans for Rome's future.

You are not so much a conspirator as a lunatic.
Your schemes are half idiocy, half moonshine.

I have pledged you my word to be secret as to what you have told me.

My pledge holds if you now keep silent, rise from this seat and walk straight out to your litter, by the same way by which you came from it.