cleverest lie could not help me half as much as the simple truth.

STROEBEL. Out with it!

HAUTEVILLE. It's better if you find it out through someone else.

STROEBEL. That's your opinion.

HAUTEVILLE. You would only be embarrassed and I would be guilty of
a breach of confidence.

STROEBEL [with contempt]. As though people confided in such as
you.

HAUTEVILLE. I think that they rely upon the fact that our loyalty
is not "just talk."

STROEBEL [again calm]. Listen to me. I do not think that you
entirely understand your position. [Hauteville shrugs her
shoulders.] No, I don't think that you know at all what is
involved.

HAUTEVILLE. On the contrary it is far worse that you don't seem to
realize who is involved.

STROEBEL [quickly]. In what?

HAUTEVILLE. In the wardrobe.

STROEBEL. Have you lost your senses? You are a prisoner here. Do