Think of it quite calmly, naturally.

You're taking it like a story that you'd read in a magazine or a play you'd seen at a theatre--melodrama with all the lights on and every one screaming.

Well, it can be like that if you want it.

Every one thinks of murder that way and you can go shrieking to the Dean and have the rope round my neck in a minute.

But I want you to think of it as the most ordinary thing in the world.