Ah. Then you think me corrupt as well as foolish.

[Sorry, Ford. This would totally have worked with a native guard, for what it's worth?]

[Unfortunately, she's got a peskily overdeveloped sense of duty and honour. Also, she's a prude. Offering to buy your way out - with money or anything else - only makes her less willing to trust you.]

No. I shall take this-- [She holds up his notebook, still loosely-gripped in her other hand] --to those with better knowledge of the land's laws than I, and see what is to be done. But it will not be by bribery.