But I felt better when I came back to the fire again, and very brave till I caught a glimpse of my face in the mirror over the mantelpiece.

That--that unnerved me, and I think I screamed.

Some one screamed, and I think it was I.I know my hands went out--I saw them in the glass; then they fell straight down at my side, and I looked and looked at myself till I saw all the terror go out of my face, and when it was quite calm again, I stooped down and pulled out the little tongs I had been heating in the fire, and laid them quick--quick, before I could be sorry again--right across my cheek, and then--" Uproar in the court.

If she had screamed when she said she did, so some one cried out loudly now.

I think that pitiful person was myself.