Put the law courts out of your head.

Whatever else you do, you must not bring an action for criminal libel against Queensberry.

You are sure to lose it; you haven't a dog's chance, and the English despise the beaten--_vae victis_! Don't commit suicide." Nothing was determined when the time came to part.
This conversation took place, I believe, on the Friday or Saturday.

I spent the whole of Sunday trying to find out what was known about Oscar Wilde and what would be brought up against him.

I wanted to know too how he was regarded in an ordinary middle-class English home.
My investigations had appalling results.