"Yes, your Honor. I asked her then if she took pleasure from killing
beautiful things, and she looked at me--rather strangely, I must
say--and said: 'No, Sergeant, this is the only time I ever killed
anything beautiful, or anything I loved.' I don't know why a person
would do a thing like that."
Tight-voiced, dubious, like a man groping through uncertain country, Judge
Mann asked: "Was she, in your opinion, overexcited--exalted--anything
like that, Sergeant?"