I have to get at that judge as soon as possible.

He seems to have been ill-treating Miss King.

I expected that he'd go for her over that paraffin oil affair, but--" "Amn't I telling you," said Doyle, "that she'd neither act nor part--" "I know that; but the judge thinks she had, and he's-- You'd hardly believe it, Doyle, but he's had the unparalleled insolence to go and quarter himself on her in Ballymoy House." "It's what I said he'd do," said Doyle, "and I'm not surprised." "If you understood the peculiar and delicate relations which exist between that judge and Miss King--but of course you don't, and I, unfortunately, can't explain them to you.

If you did, you'd see at once that the judge must simply have forced himself on Miss King, using, I have no doubt, the most unchivalrous and despicable threats to achieve his end.

Considering that he's getting his board and lodging out of her he might very well be prosecuted for blackmail.