I continued with the questioning. "You are denying that Uncle Peter had
anything to do with this deadly serum that disintegrates people before
one's eyes?"
"I'm _not_ denying it."
"Then it follows that your moral sense is so badly corroded you no
longer consider murder to be a crime--"
"Now listen here!"
"In law," I went on, "the victim's standing in society is not taken into
consideration where murder is involved. It is just as wrong in the eyes
of the law to murder Cement Mixer Zinsky as the pastor of the First
Congregational Church."