Then a look of relief came into his face, and he smiled.
"You'll give up that absurd theory of yours now, I suppose," he said, "and admit that Miss King isn't a murderess.

I always knew she wasn't, though I couldn't convince you." "I don't see," said Meldon, "that anything has happened to invalidate the evidence on which we originally concluded that Miss King is Mrs.
Lorimer." "Don't be an ass, J.J.

You say she's the judge's niece; so of course she can't--" "You apparently think," said Meldon, "that a judge's niece, merely because her uncle happens to occupy a position of legal eminence, couldn't possibly commit a crime.

You're entirely wrong.

Some of the greatest women criminals the world has ever seen have been the nieces of men of high position.