"Your sense of duty is an example to us all, Mr. White," Bolingbroke protested, in a voice soaked with amusement over the concluding detail of the jack-in-the-box. "If you were misled, ’twas only because the Byzantine intrigues that were afoot on that day, are so alien to the mentality of an honest Englishman. Tell me, when you returned to the Tower, and found that indescribable scene, were you concerned as to the Crown Jewels?"