"Not a police court, perhaps," he admitted; "but wait till you see a big trial."
"I hope I never shall — but it seems that I'm going to. You have a beautiful case, haven't you?"
"That is the word my chief uses about it."
"And don't you agree?" she asked quickly.
"Oh, yes, certainly." To admit to Mrs. Everett that he was not satisfied was one thing, but he was not going to blazon it abroad. And this independent girl was certainly "abroad."
Presently she mentioned Lamont directly. "He looks bad," she said judicially, using «bad» in her professional sense. "Will they look after him in prison?"
"Oh, yes," said Grant; "they take very good care of them."
"Is there any chance of their badgering him? Because I warn you he won't stand any badgering as he is now. Either he'll be seriously ill or he'll say that he did it."
"Then you don't believe he did?"
"I think it's unlikely, but I'm quite aware that the fact that I think so doesn't make it so. I just want him to get a fair deal."