MACDUFF: My children too?
ROSS: Wife, children, servants, all
That could be found.
MACDUFF: And I must be from thence!
My wife kill’d too?
ROSS: I have said.
– William Shakespeare
Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3. Macduff is in a state of absolute shock and disbelief at the news that his family has been murdered. He repeatedly asks Ross if it is true, despite having been told already by Ross.