"Yes!" she hissed, eyes wide. "What did you think? Who else would have a royal signet?"<br/><br/>At Delphine's insistence, she shook her head. "You have to have stolen this. He wouldn't just give it away!" she protested, though she kept listening.<br/><br/>"I don't... you've got to be kidding. That is the worst excuse I have ever heard, and I've heard, and given, a lot of bad ones," she said, still looking downright terrified. "You have to tell me what really happened. I'm sure we can fix this, somehow, but you have to be honest with me. No one is going to believe a ridiculous story, like that!"