[The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Law and the Lady CHAPTER XIII 3/16
I know why now." Hearing this, I told them both unreservedly what I had said to Eustace, and how he had received it.
To my unspeakable disappointment, they both sided with my husband, treating my view of his position as a mere dream. They said it, as he had said it, "You have not read the Trial." I was really enraged with them.
"The facts are enough for _me,_" I said. "We know he is innocent.
Why is his innocence not proved? It ought to be, it must be, it shall be! If the Trial tell me it can't be done, I refuse to believe the Trial.
Where is the book, Major? Let me see for myself if his lawyers have left nothing for his wife to do.
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