Do you thinkI dont know why youre trying to make
out my father isnt responsible? The spot selected would only have been so chosen by
aman of special knowledge.
In what medievaldarkness you brood all your days!
You understand what isreally meant of a hypothesis that holds the field. Above all,
you do not believe in the ForbiddenTree.
Everything has a little weakness somewhere. He
doesnt believe in Adam and Eve or anything they tell you abouton Sundays. He stopped
and seemed startled at his own words. My dear fellow, and you are the cold and
rational man of science, saidWindrush lightly.
Ill talk straight enough, answered the doctor
coolly. Some would have said his mood was too shallow for suchtragedies. Indeed,from
all I hear of the late lamented Mr.
Whatever he said was pretty sound, you may be
certain, said the other.
I can only say that anything that can soften the
shock for anyoneinvolved will be done.
Butthe real murderer behaves in a much more
ordinary fashion.
Ill talk straight enough, answered the doctor
coolly.
But, said Harrington gravely, I understood that no
less a person thanDr. The pale lips seemed to move as if with a grin of agony: And
why shouldI mind that? Perhaps in Utopia, perhapsin Paradise, we may have murders of
that perfect and poetical sort. As if any serious scientific man nowbelieved all his
stuff about Arboreal Man! Be silent, sir, said Doone, with fine dignity and
indignation. And then she saw something that finally put him beyond
pardon.
What did they get whoasked, after the manner of
that ancient folly, for the Fruit of the tree?