So? Do you have something to say in your defense? [ She raises her voice, but the emotion behind it doesn't sound accusatory in the way he might expect. If anything, she sounds frustrated—as if his passivity in the face of her accusation has gotten under her skin. ] All I've gotten out of you is that you don't want to kill innocent children—but that doesn't mean you couldn't have killed Thomasin to keep her from trying it on anyone else, or that you're not offering yourself up as a sacrificial lamb for this sick show the Principal wants us to put on. That keeps your hands clean, and you get to protect your girlfriend, too.