He is guilty.

That is why." "Ah!" It was a sound like the snapped string of an instrument.

Her fingers gripped each other.

"So you think that too! Indeed--indeed, you are wrong! But--is that your only reason ?" "Isn't it a sufficient one ?" he said.
Her fingers writhed and strained against each other.

"Do you mean that it is--against your principles ?" she said.
"To defend a guilty man ?" questioned the barrister slowly.
She nodded two or three times as if for the moment utterance were beyond her.
Field's eyes had not stirred from her face, yet still they had that legal look as if he searched for some hidden information.
"No," he said finally.