"I never heard of anything so monstrous. But, Day, it isn't possible that they can find him guilty?"
"As for that, I can't tell. They wouldn't, if I was on the jury, I do know that."
"Of course not, and they wouldn't if I was."
"No, miss, I suppose not."
Day moved off, Miss Arnott following him with her eyes, as if something in his last remark had struck her strangely.
A little later, when talking over the subject with Mrs Plummer, the elder lady displayed a spirit which seemed to be beyond the younger one's comprehension. Miss Arnott was pouring forth scorn upon the magistrates.
"I have heard a great deal of the stupidity of the Great Unpaid, but I had never conceived that it could go so far as this. There is not one jot or tittle of evidence to justify them in charging that man with murder."
Mrs Plummer's manner as she replied was grim.
"I wonder to hear you talk like that."
"Why should you wonder?"