“Did you know Isaac Zahn, with whose murder he is charged?”
“I did.”
“Is it a fact that you were engaged in marriage to Isaac Zahn?”
“I was, but the engagement was broken off some six weeks before his death.”
“And that you afterwards became engaged to John Scarlett?”
“I was never engaged to marry the prisoner.”
“Ah, then I have been misinformed. Were not the prisoner and the deceased rivals for your hand?”
“I believed them to be so.”
“Did you ever know them to quarrel?”
“I once saw the prisoner throw Isaac Zahn out of a house.”