The girl alone, there in the dock, remained calm and unmoved.

Remember that for two days we had heard evidence to prove that old Dr.Crawford had died leaving his daughter penniless, that having no mother she had been brought up by a maiden aunt, who had trained her to be a governess, which occupation she had followed for years, and that certainly she had never been known by any of her friends to be in possession of solitaire diamond earrings.
"The prosecution had certainly secured an ace of trumps, but Sir James Fenwick, who during the whole of that day had seemed to take little interest in the proceedings, here rose from his seat, and I knew at once that he had got a tit-bit in the way of a 'point' up his sleeve.

Gaunt, and unusually tall, and with his beak-like nose, he always looks strangely impressive when he seriously tackles a witness.

He did it this time with a vengeance, I can tell you.

He was all over the pompous little jeweller in a moment.
"'Had Mr.Campbell made a special entry in his book, as to the visit of the lady in question ?' "'No.' "'Had he any special means of ascertaining when that visit did actually take place ?' "'No--but--' "'What record had he of the visit ?' "Mr.Campbell had none.