The evidence to come will no doubt determine whether it is a tenable opinion." "Admitting this, then, the attitude in which Captain Tremayne was discovered would be a perfectly natural one?
It would be natural that he should investigate the identity and hurt of the man he found there ?" "Certainly." "But it would hardly be natural that he should linger by the body of a man he had himself slain, thereby incurring the risk of being discovered ?" "That is a question for the court rather than for me." "Thank you, Sir Terence." And, as no one else desired to question him, Sir Terence resumed his seat, and Lady O'Moy was called.
She came in very white and trembling, accompanied by Miss Armytage, whose admittance was suffered by the court, since she would not be called upon to give evidence.

One of the officers of the Fourteenth seated on the extreme right of the table made gallant haste to set a chair for her ladyship, which she accepted gratefully.
The oath administered, she was invited gently by Major Swan to tell the court what she knew of the case before them.
"But--but I know nothing," she faltered in evident distress, and Sir Terence, his elbow leaning on the table, covered his mouth with his hand that its movements might not betray him.

His eyes glowered upon her with a ferocity that was hardly dissembled.
"If you will take the trouble to tell the court what you saw from your balcony," the major insisted, "the court will be grateful." Perceiving her agitation, and attributing it to nervousness, moved also by that delicate loveliness of hers, and by deference to the adjutant-generates lady, Sir Harry Stapleton intervened.
"Is Lady O'Moy's evidence really necessary ?" he asked.

"Does it contribute any fresh fact regarding the discovery of the body ?" "No, sir," Major Swan admitted.

"It is merely a corroboration of what we have already heard from Mullins and Sir Terence." "Then why unnecessarily distress this lady ?" "Oh, for my own part, sir--" the prosecutor was submitting, when Sir Terence cut in: "I think that in the prisoner's interest perhaps Lady O'Moy will not mind being distressed a little." It was at her he looked, and for her and Tremayne alone that he intended the cutting lash of sarcasm concealed from the rest of the court by his smooth accent.