But I am sure you can tell me more about that than I can possibly tell you.

With your legal experience you must have come across scores of instances of the extraordinarily deceptive nature of words." "You thought apparently that I should be likely to object to the marriage, and therefore you tried to keep me out of Ballymoy, using means which might be described as unscrupulous." "I've already apologised for the paraffin oil," said Meldon.

"A full and ample apology, such as I have offered, is generally considered to close an incident of that kind.

In the old duelling days, when men used to go out at early dawn to shoot at each other with pistols, the one who had shied the wine glass at the other the night before often used to apologise; and when he did the pistols were put up into their case, and both parties went back comfortably to breakfast.

I've often wondered that men of your profession--judges, I mean--didn't do something effective to put a stop to duelling.