[His smile is lopsided.] That wasn't the part one might be particularly concerned about someone believing.
[In retrospect, Dorian realizes that nearly everything described in that novel was varying degrees of illegal. They all could have been in so much trouble. Indeed, Oscar was. It's incredible he was never hit with a libel suit himself. But those things that Dorian doesn't want to bring to Judas's attention. The murder is the obvious crime, and the other peculiarities of Victorian morality are best left in the past, where they did their damage.]
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[In retrospect, Dorian realizes that nearly everything described in that novel was varying degrees of illegal. They all could have been in so much trouble. Indeed, Oscar was. It's incredible he was never hit with a libel suit himself. But those things that Dorian doesn't want to bring to Judas's attention. The murder is the obvious crime, and the other peculiarities of Victorian morality are best left in the past, where they did their damage.]