Moreover, it occurred to her suddenly, and sowed fresh terror in her soul, that, whatever it was, it would tell against Captain Tremayne.
"I--I am afraid I don't remember," she faltered at last.
"Try to think, Lady O'Moy." "I--I have tried.

But I--I can't." Her voice had fallen almost to a whisper.
"Need we insist ?" put in the president compassionately.

"There are sufficient witnesses as to what passed on that occasion without further harassing her ladyship." "Quite so, sir," the major agreed in his dry voice.

"It only remains for the prisoner to question the witness if he so wishes." Tremayne shook his head.

"It is quite unnecessary, sir," he assured the president, and never saw the swift, grim smile that flashed across Sir Terence's stern face.
Of the court Sir Terence was the only member who could have desired to prolong the painful examination of her ladyship.