I collected the case they had spent years building against themselves, and carried it to a place where it could finally be seen.

And that distinction is not a technicality; it is everything, because a man who inflicts harm on his enemies, however deserved, becomes a person who inflicts harm, and I had a wife to heal and a life to live and no wish to become that.

What I did instead left my hands completely clean, and left the Prescotts convicted entirely by their own conduct, and that is the only kind of victory that does not cost you a piece of yourself to win.

I did not do this to them.