"I am convinced of his guilt!"
"And you would defend him quand meme?"
"Every man has a right to a defence. It's easy enough to acquit an innocent man. His innocence itself speaks for him. But to pardon a guilty man, to turn to him indulgently and mercifully, as a Christian should turn to his brother, whoever he is, much intelligence and much knowledge of the human heart is required. Christ did not judge, Christ justified all, and for this very reason, and to awaken in the juries' hearts that divine spark which exists in everyone of us ..."
"But surely they won't acquit him?"
"Perhaps they will."
"What, a good-for-nothing fellow like that! I would transport him with hard labour. And because of him we shan't see each other any more. How I hate him! And yet you are going to defend him." ... And Mimotchka began to cry.
"What a child you are!" said Valerian Nicolaevitch, and kissed her eyes.
"Then we shan't see each other any more?"