"He was a very annoying child," his wife said.
"He probably wouldn't have lived, anyway," the third mate said. "Puny baby."
"That," said Nestir, "is not at all like the Carstar case. Not at all. Yours is a question of saliex y cuminzund."
The first mate nodded.
"It seems to me that the whole thing would depend on the intent of the strangler."
"Captain," the steward said, "you really must let me give you some of that salve."
"That's very kind of you, but I...."
"No bother at all," the steward said.
"As I see it," Nestir said, "if the intent was the natural maternal instinct of the mother to release her child from its duty, then...."
"Oh, not at all," the third mate's wife said. "I did it to make him stop crying."