I want to discuss the judge's conduct." O'Donoghue also wanted to discuss the judge's conduct.

He was even more anxious to find out, if he could, why Meldon disliked the idea of this particular judge paying a visit to Ballymoy.

He recovered his temper with an effort.
"I don't think," he said, "that he believed a word you said about the drains." "That's exactly what I'm complaining of.

He ought to have believed us.
According to all the rules of evidence, no stronger testimony could possibly have been offered than the statements of a clergyman and a doctor, neither of whom had any personal interest in the condition of the drains.

Unless we'd brought a bottle of water out of Doyle's well, and shown him the bacilli swimming about in it, I don't see what more we could have done." "I wish I knew," said O'Donoghue, "exactly why it is that you want to keep Sir Gilbert out of Ballymoy.