Mr.Jaggers worked that in this way: "We say these are not marks of finger-nails, but marks of brambles, and we show you the brambles.

You say they are marks of finger-nails, and you set up the hypothesis that she destroyed her child.

You must accept all consequences of that hypothesis.

For anything we know, she may have destroyed her child, and the child in clinging to her may have scratched her hands.

What then?
You are not trying her for the murder of her child; why don't you?
As to this case, if you will have scratches, we say that, for anything we know, you may have accounted for them, assuming for the sake of argument that you have not invented them ?" "To sum up, sir," said Wemmick, "Mr.Jaggers was altogether too many for the jury, and they gave in." "Has she been in his service ever since ?" "Yes; but not only that," said Wemmick, "she went into his service immediately after her acquittal, tamed as she is now.