There's no supposition about it." "And supposing the judge tried her as you say--" "That's in all the papers.

There's no use attempting to deny that, whatever else you deny." "And supposing she's his niece--" "Callaghan says the cook told him she was," said Meldon, "and it appears that she kissed him when they met, which she'd hardly have done if they weren't relations." "Then," said the Major triumphantly, "how can you account for his going to stay with her as if she hadn't done anything wrong ?" "I don't quite catch your point, Major." "Is it likely that, knowing his niece to be a murderess, or at all events believing her to be a murderess, a judge--a judge, mind you, J.
J .-- would go and stay in the house with her, and kiss her ?" "It was she who kissed him," said Meldon, "but that's a minor point.

I see your difficulty now, Major, and I quite admit there's something in it, or appears to be something in it to a man like you who doesn't understand the legal point of view." "No point of view can alter facts," said the Major, "supposing they are facts, which of course they're not." "Yes, it can," said Meldon.

"To the legal mind a fact ceases to be a fact the moment a properly qualified court has decided the other way.
The judge may be, in this particular case he is, as we know, absolutely convinced that his niece is a murderess.

But a jury says she isn't, and so from a legal point of view she's a perfectly innocent and upright woman.