There would be no murder done in that case, no haunting horror of a presence, no discovery to be feared, since there would have been no evil.

Let him die, if he was dying! But that was not all either.

What would it be when Paolo should be dead?
Well, he had his ideas, of course.

They were mistaken ideas.

Were they?
Perhaps, who could tell?
But he was not a bad man, this Paolo.