I cannot speak for your purpose - only that I have seen the man you would call brother, and if he were to think his sister's name were tarnished by falsehood, you know, Madam. You know, surely, what don Cesare would do. You know the peace he would show you, in this life and the next. So, I tell you: if this is game or lie, best cease it.

[ And he remembers, distantly, there is such a thing as 'composure'. ]

I am... Valentino Masi. Courier to don Lorenzo de Medici.