Agatha Christie. Five piglets (№ 424357)

- How would I put it more clearly... It's a typical English way of looking at things. "Do not shoot at a sitting bird" - do you understand the meaning of such an expression?
- Yes, as you said, a typical English point of view. But I think I understood. And in the Central Criminal Court, and on the Eton Sports Ground, and in the hunting grounds, it is important for the Englishman that the victim has his chance.