"Latent, you mean, don't you?" "Mostly latent, but a good deal of it overt, liberated." "Item, his fears are inconsistent: he's afraid of the dark but quite ready to play with matches." "Another trait of childhood." "Also of masturbating monkeys. Item, he talks a great deal about truth, but in the end, what he believes is what he wishes to believe." "At that point I must draw your Majesty's attention to an essential point in the original indictment, namely the admission that this monster possesses roughly three billion heads. And three billion bodies. In that view of it, it's good law as well as necessary charity to insist that each head-and-body unit of the monster be tried separately." "There isn't time, sir, there isn't time. Are you implying that not everyone is snotty?" "Something like that." "But then we can have no trial. No trial, no justice, no fun. Ah, damn it, I was looking forward to a hanging, with a bang-up speech from the platform and not a dry eye in the entire public square except for a few pickpockets and sellers of soft drinks." "Callista--" "Sir! No--fair enough. I'll put my scepter down. Maybe I'm tired of being queen. But may I keep my crown a while?" "You've always worn it." "No. No. Bring your chair--no, take this one, Cecil. I'd like to sit on the floor with my head on your knee--not that you're like my father at all. My crown--oh, put it away somewhere, keep it, I don't care. I don't hear that wind any more. Is it turning cold?" "Yes, it's quite cold tonight. Callista, the prosecution will finish tomorrow, with the reading of those letters. We'll probably open after the noon recess.... Is there anything, anything at all, you haven't told me?" "Yes." "You said, in court today, you said there was something." "Yes. Why did you stop moving your hand over my hair? I loved it. That's better. Cecil, I am guilty." "The--blank?" "Yes. Haven't you almost known it all along?" "No. But I've been afraid you might remember something, or convince yourself that you've remembered it, and so come to believe yourself guilty."