"I am innocent." She lied with the absurd and barefaced illogicalness of one finding herself in danger of death.

It was necessary to re-read her first declarations, which she was now denying, of presenting afresh the material proofs whose existence she did not wish to admit, of making her entire past file by supported by that irrefutable data of anonymous origin.
"It is _they_ who have done it all!...

They have mis-represented me!...
Since they have brought about my ruin, I am going to tell what I know." In his account the lawyer passed lightly over what had occurred in the Council of War.

Professional secrecy and patriotic interest prevented greater explicitness.

The session had lasted from morning till night, Freya revealing to her judges all that she knew....