But they all had good faces, and none could doubt their interest, or that they were fully alive to the significance of the occasion.
Mr.Moffat, leading counsel for the defendant, was a spare man of unusual height, modified a little, and only a little, by the forward droop of his shoulders.

Nervous in manner, quick, short, sometimes rasping in speech, he had the changeful eye and mobile expression of a very sensitive nature; and from him, if from any one, I might hope to learn how much or how little Arthur had to fear from the day's proceedings.

But Mr.
Moffat's countenance was not as readable as usual.

He looked preoccupied--a strange thing for him; and, instead of keeping his eye on the witness, as was his habitual practice, he allowed it to wander over the sea of heads before him, with a curious expectant interest which aroused my own curiosity, and led me to hunt about for its cause.
My first glance was unproductive.

I saw only the usual public, such as had confronted us the whole week, with curious and increasing interest.
But as I searched further, I discerned in an inconspicuous corner, the bowed head, veiled almost beyond recognition, of Ella Fulton.