if you wish to protect others. [ not that he ever wished to protect his own wife. but that's beside the point, right? besides- ] You did not kill
anyone.
[ she did. and she would take the blame for it too; that, at least, is something to which she has committed herself, to be the killer, that 'villain' instead of him. ]
no subject
a villain at all,
if you wish to protect others. [ not that he ever wished to protect his own wife. but that's beside the point, right? besides- ] You did not kill