"Yes, a genuine wife.

And the victim was a genuine brother-in-law.

From a certain point of view we are here in the presence of a domestic drama." The Assistant Commissioner laughed a little; but the great man's thoughts seemed to have wandered far away, perhaps to the questions of his country's domestic policy, the battle-ground of his crusading valour against the paynim Cheeseman.

The Assistant Commissioner withdrew quietly, unnoticed, as if already forgotten.
He had his own crusading instincts.

This affair, which, in one way or another, disgusted Chief Inspector Heat, seemed to him a providentially given starting-point for a crusade.