But as he did so, he shook a fist at his bruised, battered enemy.
"It ain't against the law to 'it a man when 'e 's a criminal," came at last.

The thing was weighing on Harry's mind.

"I don't care anyway if it is--" "Oh, there 's nothing to that," Anita cut in.

"I know all about the law--father has explained it to me lots of times when there 've been cases before him.

In a thing of this kind, you 've got a right to take any kind of steps necessary.