"Ah, you've come at last! But you have just missed Fenella. She has gone to Castletown—that girl again, I suppose."
"I know. I saw her. That's the matter I've come to speak about."
"So? Oblige me then by walking here so that I may keep an eye on the gardener."
Stowell winced, but stepped to and fro on the path by the Governor's side while in a low tone he broached his business.
"Deemster Taubman told me at Tynwald that you had reported against the Jury's recommendation."
"Well?"
"I thought perhaps you would permit me to explain the exact legal position."
"Yes?"
"It is fifty years at least since the prisoner has been executed on this island for that crime."
"Fifty, is it?"