"I repeat, can you prove it?"
"I can tell you who her lover is."
"Then by all means do so."
"No! Please, no," Isobel d'Larte cried. "I killed my husband."
When order had been restored in the court the judge stared down at Isobel.
"Am I to understand that you confess to the murder of Arnaud d'Larte?"
"Yes," Isobel said softly. "I hated him and I killed him. I killed with the iron statue of Venus. I hit him with it till he died and I hit him with it after he was dead. I killed him."
Andy Kirk smiled.
It only took a short time to bring in a verdict of guilty against Isobel d'Larte. She accepted the verdict silently and without flinching. In like manner she accepted her sentence. She was to be sent to fight in the front lines of the war in Asia.
"I declare this court adjourned," the judge said and banged his gavel down authoritatively.