I think it will probably be one of the most talked-of cases that we have ever been connected with." "Yes, but what do you think of her guilt or innocence ?" "As to that," said Benham, calmly, "I haven't the slightest doubt.

She murdered him." As he said this, Brenton, forgetting himself for a moment, sprang forward as if to strangle the lawyer.

The statement Benham had made seemed the most appalling piece of treachery.

That men should take a woman's money for defending her, and actually engage in a case when they believed their client guilty, appeared to Brenton simply infamous.
"I agree with you," said Brown.

"Of course she was the only one to benefit by his death.