Have you ever heard me say a thing I
didn't mean?"
"To be quite candid," said the Major, "I have, once or twice."
"You're entirely mistaken. You have not. And in any case I mean what
I say now. Do you really suppose that I'd have spent the whole of this
hot day fagging up and down the roads about Ballymoy if I wasn't in
earnest about what I was at?"
"But you don't. You can't think that this lady--Miss King or whatever
her name is--will really murder Simpkins?"
"She'll try to if she marries him. I can't be absolutely certain that
she'll succeed, but I think it's very likely that she will. She's had
a lot of practice, and by her own account she's been unusually
successful."
"That's all rot, of course," said the Major. "Murder isn't committed
in that sort of way. No woman would deliberately with her eyes open--"
"Did Mrs. Lorimer murder her husband by accident, or did she intend to
do it and plan the whole thing out beforehand?"
"I don't know."
"You do know. You read the evidence and you read the judge's charge,
and you know as well as I do that she proceeded in the most deliberate
way possible."
"It looked like it," said the Major.
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