But this will not help you.

It will only show that, in our opinion, you have gained the rights of a man suspected of something more than shirking his duty as an unknown and hitherto unsuspected witness." "This is awful!" Young Cumberland had risen to his feet and was swaying to and fro before them like a man struck between the eyes by some maddening blow.
"God! if I had only died that night!" he muttered, with his eyes upon the floor and every muscle tense with the shock of this last calamity.
"Dr.Perry," he moaned suddenly, stretching out one hand in entreaty, and clutching at the table for support with the other, "let me go for to-night.

Let me think.

My brain is all in a whirl.

I'll try to answer to-morrow." But even as he spoke he realised the futility of his request.