Alice knew.

She knew that Priam was in an extremely peculiar state which might lead to extremely peculiar results; and she knew also that there was nothing to be done with him! She herself had made one little effort to bathe him in the light of reason; the effort had not succeeded.

She saw the danger of renewing it.

Pennington, K.C., by the way, insisted that she should leave the court during Priam's evidence.
Priam's attitude towards the whole case was one of bitter resentment, a resentment now hot, now cold.

He had the strongest possible objection to the entire affair.