But Steel's last words dismissed every thought but that of their own import.

And in an instant she was trembling upright in the easy-chair.
"You believed me!" she whispered.

"You believed me at the time!" And for nothing had he earned such gratitude yet; her moist eyes saw the old-fashioned courtesy of his bow in answer, but not the subtlety of the smile that bore it company in the depths of the dark eyes: it was a smile that did not extend to the short, tight mouth.
"What is more to the point, my dear lady," he went on in words, "the jury believed you, and I saw that they did.

You made a tremendous impression upon them.

The lawyer against you was too humane to try very hard to remove it, and the judge too just--though your own man did his best.