"'His wrong's your wrong, and his right's your right,
In season or out of season.
Stand up and back it in all men's sight—
With that for your only reason!
Nine hundred and ninety-nine can't bide
The shame or mocking or laughter,
But the Thousandth Man will stand by your side
To the gallows-foot—and after!'"
The last italics were in Blanche's voice, and it trembled, but so did Cazalet's as he cried out in his formula:
"That's the finest thing I ever heard in all my life! But it's true, and so it should be. I don't take any credit for it."