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It's the climax emotionally as well as vocally. Lucia doesn't just snap. We see this propensity to madness developing throughout the opera.

I should think it's pretty sophisticated. Any judge with a sense of humor and a very clever man, which Peter Smith is, is going to do pretty well.

He had a Puritan conscience and an Episcopalian sense of sin. The first pricked at him persistently, the second was excused through public piety.