And I would--I would kill _him_! Do you hear me?
I would kill him!' Sir George tried to free his mind from the influence of her passion and her eyes, from the nightmare of the room and the body, and to see things in a sane light.

'But--my good girl,' he said, slowly and not unkindly, 'I know nothing about it.Nothing.I am a stranger here.' 'For that reason I brought you here,' she retorted.
'But--I cannot interfere,' he answered, shaking his head.

'There is the law.

You must apply to it.

The law will punish the man if he has done wrong.' 'But the law will _not_ punish him!' she cried with scorn.