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The novel shows that the legal system is not interested in truth but legal justice.
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The novel shows that the legal system is not interested in truth but legal justice Janet's Lewis' novella encompasses a legal system which is more concerned with achieving legal justice by punishing those who transgress the laws of society, than discovering the truth. Propelled by her moral conscience, Bertrande seeks to have the courts identify the truth, and name her returned husband an impostor. However the inadequacy of the legal system is highlighted when a good man is executed and Betrande is left in "bitter solitary justice." In the novella the truth is that Bertrande is "imposed upon, deceived and betrayed into adultery," by a man pretending to be her husband. Bertrande is motivated to pursue the truth by a moral conscience which she derives from her devotion to the church. She is a committed catholic and is determined to uphold the laws and values of the church. Her belief that Arnaud...
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