He did not win on the literary question, but he was right to bring it in.

The passages he had quoted, and especially Oscar's letters to Lord Alfred Douglas, had created a strong prejudice in the minds of the jury.

They ought not to have had this effect, I thought, but they had.

My contempt for Courts of law deepened: those twelve jurymen were anything but the peers of the accused: how could they judge him?
* * * * * The second day of the trial was very different from the first.

There seemed to be a gloom over the Court.