If you will listen to me I think that I shall be able to convince you that Robert, deplorable though it may seem, did actually commit suicide." "What's the use of going through all this again ?" said Mrs.Pendleton wearily.

"Robert would not commit suicide." "Suicide is always difficult to explain.

Nobody can say what impels a man to it." "Robert had no reason to put an end to his life.

He had everything to live for--everything in front of him." "You cannot say that a man bordering on sixty has everything in front of him.

I know it's considered middle-aged in this misguided country, where people will never face the facts of life, but in simple truth Robert had finished with life to all intents and purposes." "You won't say that when you come to sixty yourself, Austin.