I conceived the thought of the plan. I used such a profound process. It was your derision that made me confess!
Where is your sagacity? Did you even care to listen to the man's stifled voice before his death?
After all the years you worked for him, I can't believe you would have the audacity to murder him! Are you mad? We are bringing you down to the station.
You are a mad man! You shall be sentenced to death. It doesn't matter whether you were profound in your workings or not!
This man is insane!
Yes, I killed the old man, but my plan was genius! I even watched him sleep for eight nights in the crevice of the door! I suffocated him and chopped him up in the tub so that there was no mess! It was the perfect murder.
I will escape at my last meal!
I escaped to prove my genius! I have committed the crime of all crimes! They won't arrest me, they will praise me! I know! I will write a story and then no one will think I'm mad!
"True! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"