We _will_ set it right! We _must_ set it right--for your sake, for my sake, for the sake of our children if we are blessed with children.

Oh, my own love, don't look at me with those cold eyes! Don't answer me in those hard tones! Don't treat me as if I were talking ignorantly and madly of something that can never be!" Still I never roused him.

His next words were spoken compassionately rather than coldly--that was all.
"My defense was undertaken by the greatest lawyers in the land," he said.

"After such men have done their utmost, and have failed--my poor Valeria, what can you, what can I, do?
We can only submit." "Never!" I cried.

"The greatest lawyers are mortal men; the greatest lawyers have made mistakes before now.