Sunday, February 06, 2022

Easing of the conscience

     It will be noticed, by the way, that in the struggle between Miss Climpson's conscience and what Wilkie Collins calls "detective fever," conscience was getting the worst of it and was winking at an amount of deliberate untruth which a little time earlier would have staggered it.

(from Unnatural Death, by Dorothy L. Sayers)

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