But I find my anger vanishing in regret.

I should scorn you for the lie you have acted, for your scant regard to your oath in the court-martial, for your attempt to combat an imagined villainy by a real villainy.

But I realise what you have suffered, and in that suffering lies the punishment you fully deserve for not having taken the straight course, for not having taxed me there and then with the thing that you suspected." "The gentleman is about to lecture me upon morals, Sylvia." But Tremayne let pass the interruption.
"It is quite true that I was in Una's room while you were killing Samoval.

But I was not alone with her, as you have so rashly assumed.
Her brother Richard was there, and it was on his behalf that I was present.

She had been hiding him for a fortnight.