Another cardinal, Gustavo Testa, an old friend of John XXIII, lost his temper in the Chapel and demanded that the intransigents stop impeding Montini's path. In a version of the Siri thesis, some claim that Cardinal Siri received the two-thirds required for a valid election but eventually refused the office, allegedly under pressure. When asked two decades later whether in both the 1958 and 1963 conclaves _he_had initially been elected as pontiff, Siri is reported by Louis Hubert Remy to have responded ``I am bound by the secret. <sep>, Pronoun: he