Just as she was about to knock at the door Mr.Wethered was coming out of the room.

Mary stopped with the tray in her hand, and at the door Mr.Wethered turned and said quite loudly: 'Now, don't fret, don't be anxious; do try and be calm.

Your will is safe in my pocket, nothing can change it or alter one word of it but yourself.' "It was, of course, a very ticklish point in law whether the housemaid's evidence could be accepted.

You see, she was quoting the words of a man since dead, spoken to another man also dead.

There is no doubt that had there been very strong evidence on the other side against Percival Brooks, Mary Sullivan's would have counted for nothing; but, as I told you before, the judge's belief in the prisoner's guilt was already very seriously shaken, and now the final blow aimed at it by Mr.
Oranmore shattered his last lingering doubts.
"Dr.Mulligan, namely, had been placed by Mr.Oranmore into the witness-box.