«Qual è la vostra ricetta per conservare la giovinezza, Irene?» «Quando non si vive ci si conserva meravigliosamente». - John Galsworthy

Life was to be lived — not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love — to be enjoyed!

My friend has alluded to the “romantic glamour” with which I have sought to invest this case. Gentlemen, I have done nothing of the kind. I have merely shown you the background of “life” — that palpitating life which, believe me — whatever my friend may say — always lies behind the commission of a crime. Now gentlemen, we live in a highly, civilized age, and the sight of brutal violence disturbs us in a very strange way, even when we have no personal interest in the matter. But when we see it inflicted on a woman whom we love — what then?

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.