"I have other witnesses: Mary, the granddaughter of the Mukaukas," and she tried to catch his eye.
"The child whose little heart you have won, and who follows you about like a pet dog!" he cried.
"And besides Mary, Katharina, the widow Susannah's daughter," she added, sure of her triumph, and the color mounted to her cheeks.

"She is no longer a child, but a maiden grown, as you know.

I therefore demand of you--" and she again turned to the assembly--"that you will fulfil your functions worthily and promote justice in my behalf by calling in both these witnesses and hearing their evidence." On this Orion interposed with forced composure: "As to whether a soft-hearted child ought to be exposed to the temptation to save the friend she absolutely worships by giving evidence before the judges, be it what it may, only her grandparents can decide.

Her tender years would at any rate detract from the validity of her evidence, and I am averse to involving a child of this house in this dubious affair.

With regard to Katharina, it is, on the contrary, the duty of this court to request her presence, and I offer myself to go and fetch her." He resolutely resisted Paula's attempts to interrupt him again: she should have a patient hearing presently in the presence of her witness.
The gem no doubt had come to her from her father.