[…] below her perfume lingered another perfume, more elusive, more aggressive, a man’s scent. Still staring into her eyes, he deliberately blanked his mind three times; and each time the first picture triggered in his mind by that underscent was the face of Billy Merganser.

If a practice which conformed with those three requirements had been conducted consuetudinarily, the court was authorised to infer from this practice the common conviction of the people.

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