She was carrying a bag which seemed heavy, and was walking towards the Caledonian Railway Station.
"But the most thrilling moment in that sensational trial was reached on the second day, when David Graham, looking wretchedly ill, unkempt, and haggard, stepped into the witness-box.

A murmur of sympathy went round the audience at sight of him, who was the second, perhaps, most deeply stricken victim of the Charlotte Square tragedy.
"David Graham, in answer to Crown Counsel, gave an account of his last interview with Lady Donaldson.
"'Tremlett had told me that she seemed anxious and upset, and I went to have a chat with her; she soon cheered up and....' "There the unfortunate young man hesitated visibly, but after a while resumed with an obvious effort.
"'She spoke of my marriage, and of the gift she was about to bestow upon me.

She said the diamonds would be for my wife, and after that for my daughter, if I had one.

She also complained that Mr.Macfinlay had been so punctilious about preparing the deed of gift, and that it was a great pity the L100,000 could not just pass from her hands to mine without so much fuss.
"'I stayed talking with her for about half an hour; then I left her, as she seemed ready to go to bed; but I told her maid to listen at the door in about an hour's time.' "There was deep silence in the court for a few moments, a silence which to me seemed almost electrical.

It was as if, some time before it was uttered, the next question put by Crown Counsel to the witness had hovered in the air.
"'You were engaged to Miss Edith Crawford at one time, were you not ?' "One felt, rather than heard, the almost inaudible 'Yes' which escaped from David Graham's compressed lips.
"'Under what circumstances was that engagement broken off ?' "Sir James Fenwick had already risen in protest, but David Graham had been the first to speak.
"'I do not think that I need answer that question.' "'I will put it in a different form, then,' said Crown Counsel urbanely--'one to which my learned friend cannot possibly take exception.