I can't stop here to explain the whole circumstances to you, for I have other things to do, and in any case you wouldn't be able to understand.

But I would like to fix this fact firmly in your mind: Sabina is in no way to blame." "Is there any fear now," said Callaghan, "that she might be took by the police ?" "Not the slightest." "Him being a judge and all ?" "That doesn't make the least difference.

If Sabina had poisoned anybody--she hasn't, but if she had--or even if she'd tried to, she'd be had up for it whether her victim was a judge or a corner boy.

It's worse, I believe, if you poison the king; but short of that it's the same thing exactly.

The law doesn't set a bit more value on a judge's life than on any one else's, and Sir Gilbert Hawkesby would be the first man to tell you that.