But I did not lock the door.

Then I lit my candle and then--I went upstairs." Fainter and fainter the words fell, and slower and slower heaved the youthful breast under her heavily pressing palm.

Mr.Moffat made a sign across the court-room, and I saw Dr.Carpenter get up and move nearer to the witness stand.

But she stood in no need of his help.

In an instant her cheek flushed; the eye I watched with such intensity of wonder that apprehension unconsciously left me, rose, glowed, and fixed itself at last--not on the judge, not on the prisoner, not even on that prisoner's counsel--but on _me_; and as the soft light filled my soul and awoke awe, where it had hitherto awakened passion, she quietly said: "There is a room upstairs, in the club-house, where I have often been with Adelaide.