“And did you mean that all along?”
“Of course I did.”
For some time neither spoke, but looked at each other occasionally with an expression of fierce brutality in their eyes.
At last, Phillip said:
“Suppose I disprove all your charges and accusations—what then?”
“Oh, but you can’t.”
“Can’t?”
“No—impossible.”
“But if I get witnesses to swear to my innocence?”
“Why, then, I’ll so manage it as to have two witnesses to your one to swear quite the contrary.”