"If anything can extenuate killing a fellow-creature, it is that.

Are you quite positive--But perhaps I have no right to speak on this matter." "Speak, speak!" broke out Harry Danton.

"I am shut up in these horrible rooms from week's end to week's end, until it is the only thing that keeps me from going mad--talking of what I have done.

What were you going to say ?" "I wanted to ask you if you were quite certain--beyond the shadow of doubt--of your wife's guilt?
We sometimes make terrible mistakes in these matters." "There was no mistake," replied his companion, with a sudden look of anguish, "there could be none.

I saw and heard as plainly as I see and hear you now.