"The things which surprise us most in life come often from the most unlikely people.

We none of us mean to be deceitful, but a perfectly honest life is a luxury which few of us dare indulge in." The Colonel regarded him gravely.
"I hope," he said, "that you don't mean that you consider Wrayson capable--" "I wasn't thinking of Wrayson at all," Heneage interrupted.

"I was generalizing.

But I must say this.

I think that, given sufficient provocation or motive, there isn't one of us who wouldn't be capable of committing murder.