"Yes, sir, I remember it," whispered Kenneby.
"Do you remember my asking you then whether you had been in the habit of witnessing Sir Joseph Mason's signature?"
"Did you ask me that, sir?"
"That is the question which I put to you. Do you remember my doing so?"
"I dare say you did, sir."
"I did, and I will now read your answer. We shall give to the jury a copy of the proceedings of that trial, my lord, when we have proved it,—as of course we intend to do."
And then there was another little battle between the barristers. But as Lady Mason was now being tried for perjury, alleged to have been committed at that other trial, it was of course indispensable that all the proceedings of that trial should be made known to the jury.
"You said on that occasion," continued Furnival, "that you were sure you had witnessed three signatures of Sir Joseph's that summer,—that you had probably witnessed three in July, that you were quite sure you had witnessed three in one week in July, that you were nearly sure you had witnessed three in one day, that you could not tell what day that might have been, and that you had been used as a witness so often that you really did not remember anything about it. Can you say whether that was the purport of the evidence you gave then?"
"If it's down there—" said John Kenneby, and then he stopped himself.
"It is down here; I have read it."