'Good heavens! ' cried Elizabeth; 'but how could that be? —How could his will be disregarded? —Why did not you seek legal redress'?

" 天哪！" 伊丽莎白叫道；" 怎么会有那种事情，怎么能够不依照他的遗嘱办事？你干吗不依法申诉？"

And should this happen, she had no legal rights, no legal redress, except those same drumhead courts of which Tony had spoken so bitterly, those military courts with their arbitrary powers.

如果真的发生这样的事情，那么除了像托尼痛苦地提到过的那种临时法庭和横行霸道的军画裁判之外，她是没有任何合法权利，也不可能得到任何补偿的。