I was convinced of your innocence in spite of all the witnesses, and I knew more about you than they did.

In the trial before Mr.
Justice Charles, the thing that saved you was that you spoke of the love of David and Jonathan and the sweet affection which the common world is determined not to understand.

There is another point against you which you have not touched on yet: Gill asked you what you had in common with those serving-men and stable boys.

You have not explained that.

You have explained that you love youth, the brightness and the gaiety of it, but you have not explained what seems inexplicable to most men, that you should go about with servants and strappers." "Difficult to explain, Frank, isn't it, without the truth ?" Evidently his mind was not working.
"No," I replied, "easy, simple.