We are on the spot where the crime was committed.

We have nothing else to discuss but the crime.

So let us discuss it freely--intelligently or otherwise, so long as we speak just what is in our minds.

There need be no formality or method since this won't help us in any way." Then, passing before me, he said in a low voice: "What do you think of that, eh?
What a scene! Could you have thought of that?
I'll make a little piece out of it for the Vaudeville." And he rubbed his hands with glee.
I turned my eyes on Monsieur Stangerson.

The hope he had received from the doctor's latest reports, which stated that Mademoiselle Stangerson might recover from her wounds, had not been able to efface from his noble features the marks of the great sorrow that was upon him.