Would you have chosen this path, or would you have pleaded your case to try to save Justine? Why or why not? What does Victor's choice to remain silent say about his character? Chapter 7, pg. 86: "A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine; but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman, and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me."