Have faith and wait!
Look, Willem, he admits he doesn’t know the law and at the same time claims he’s innocent.
If he had been alone in the world it would have been easy to ignore the trial, though it was also certain that in that case the trial would never have come about.
The trial has to be kept going round and round in the little circle to which it is restricted. The consequence of that is a certain inconvenience for the accused, though it isn’t as bad as you might imagine.
It seemed as if his shame would live on after him.