“Well, I do not understand you yet! I thought I did, but I’m willing to confess that I don’t.”
Then he jumped up, almost shouting:
“Why, man alive, don’t you understand that we are charged with murder—with murder?”
“Yes,” said Frank, still unruffled, “it seems so by this.”
“And you take it like that!”
“What is the use to take it differently?”
“Use? Use? Sometimes I think you haven’t a drop of good, hot blood in your body.”
“If a person has plenty of good, hot blood, it is a good thing for him to cool it off with good, cool brains. Hot blood is all right, but it should be controlled; it should not control the man.”
“I don’t see how you can talk that way, under such circumstances. Why, we may be arrested for murder any moment!”
“We shall not.”