“You know the terrible mass of evidence that was produced against him?”
“Yes.”
“You have weighed it logically yourself?”
“Yes.”
“Have you ever believed your father to have been guilty of the crime imputed to him?”
“Never.”
“Have you any special reason for this disbelief?”
“No.”
“Yet—”
“Yet I know him to have been innocent. Ah, M. Freyberger! logic is not everything in this world, instinct with some people counts for much more. I know my dear father to have been innocent, and you ask me how I know it. I can only answer, ‘how do I know that the sun shines,’ the thing is plain before me, and we will not speak of it again.”