"
"Even so I don't expect she recognised it. You see I had to paraphrase
the whole thing to bring it down to the level of your understanding.
If you'd been in a position to quote a phrase or two, like Herren
Morale, for instance, she'd have recognised the system at once, even
without the name of Nietzsche."
"I couldn't do that, of course."
"Now I come to think of it, I don't suppose she'd have owned up to
Nietzsche in any case. She'd have been bound to deny any knowledge of
the system. You see she doesn't know that I've told you who she really
is. She probably distrusts you as a magistrate. After the brutal way
in which Sir Gilbert Hawkesby summed up against her, she would
naturally be a bit shy of any one occupying any sort of judicial
position. Of course if she knew that you were keenly interested in the
death of Simpkins it would have been different. She'd have spoken
quite openly to you then."
"I don't believe she'll kill Simpkins."
"She will if she marries him. Not that Simpkins is a particularly
objectionable man in my opinion. I rather like him myself. But Miss
King lives for her art, and once Simpkins proposes to her his fate is
sealed.
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