You might go to the cardinal and lay the case before him, and they would be lost." "I might.

I probably should." Veronica paused.

"That is true," she continued, "but whatever I did, I could not allow the matter to come to a prosecution--for the sake of my own name, if not for theirs.

But I do not believe it--I do not believe it--indeed, I do not believe it at all.
Poor Bosio was not in his right mind.

That is why he killed himself.