"Mullins has said, I think, that her ladyship was on the balcony when he came into the quadrangle.

Her evidence therefore, takes us further back in point of time than does Mullins's." Again the sarcastic double meaning was only for those two.

"Considering that the prisoner is being tried for his life, I do not think we should miss anything that may, however slightly, affect our judgment." "Sir Terence is right, I think, sir," the judge-advocate supported.
"Very well, then," said the president.

"Proceed, if you please." "Will you be good enough to tell the court, Lady O'Moy, how you came to be upon the balcony ?" Her pallor had deepened, and her eyes looked more than ordinarily large and child-like as they turned this way and that to survey the members of the court.

Nervously she dabbed her lips with a handkerchief before answering mechanically as she had been schooled: "I heard a cry, and I ran out--" "You were in bed at the time, of course ?" quoth her husband, interrupting.
"What on earth has that to do with it, Sir Terence ?" the president rebuked him, out of his earnest desire to cut this examination as short as possible.
"The question, sir, does not seem to me to be without point," replied O'Moy.