"Yes."
"Read the editorials in the Courier?"
"Yes."
"You respect its opinions?"
"I do, yes."
"Your pastor preached a sermon on this case, did he not?"
"He made applications of it in an illustrative way."
"Quite edifying, of course?"
Marriott knew he had made a mistake, but the impulse to have this fling had been irresistible. Broadwell bowed coldly.
"And all these things influenced you?"