If I have taken human life I will abide the judgment.

God knows I never dreamed of killing the man; never once supposed him seriously injured.

You, at least, believe this ?" "I believe all you tell me." The man's grasp on the casing of the window tightened, his eyes upon the mass of black hair.
"Strangely enough," he continued, "this whole affair has gone wrong from the start; nothing has turned out in the natural way.

Criminals have been made into officers of the law, and honest men changed into outlaws.

Now it seems impossible to conjecture how the adventure will terminate." She sat looking up at him, scarcely seeing his face, her hands clasped in her lap.
"'All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players,'" she said, quoting the familiar words as if in a dream.