Oh, yes, well, if he must shoot highwaymen, it's very well, but to leave the poor man dead on the road - though I make no doubt he would have done the same to Vidal, for I believe they are horridly callous, these fellows - but that's neither here nor there. Vidal had no right to leave him. Now people will say that he is wickedly blood-thirsty, or something disagreeable, and it is quite true, only one does not want the whole world to say so.