"You have learnt to control your words, Everard.

You have slept here and you live.

I have broken my word.

I wonder why ?" "Because," he pleaded, "I have not deserved that you should seek my life." "That sounds strangely," she reflected.

"Doesn't it say somewhere in the Bible--'A life for a life'?
You killed Roger Unthank." "I have killed other men since in self-defence," Dominey told her.
"Sometimes it comes to a man that he must slay or be slain.