"Not in the way you're trying to make out."
"I put it to you that it was because of your love for Robert Fielding that you shot your husband."
"No."
"Then why did you shoot him?"
"My lord,"--Cavendish's voice--"I protest. This is outrageous."
"I'm afraid, Mr. Cavendish,"--Heber's voice--"I must allow the question."
"Why did you shoot your husband?" Brunton heard his own voice, very faint through the buzz at his ears.
"I have already told you"--he heard Aliette's voice--"I killed him because I thought he was going to kill Bob."
"You meant to kill him, then?"
Again his enemy's protest. Again the judge's doubtful, "I feel I must allow the question." Again Aliette's stubborn reply: