'I am not at present prepared to name a day. When the money was lent it was not intended that it should be repaid at an early day.'
'Oh! Mr. Tudor did not want his money at an early day—didn't he? But, nevertheless, he has, I believe, asked for it since, and that very pressingly?'
'He has never asked for it,' said Undy.
'Allow me to remind you, Mr. Scott, that I have the power of putting my client into that witness-box, although he is on his trial; and, having so reminded you, let me again beg you to say whether he has not asked you for repayment of this large sum of money very pressingly.'
'No; he has never done so.'
'By the value of your oath, sir—if it has any value—did not my client beseech you to allow these shares to be sold while they were yet saleable, in order that your niece's trust money might be replaced in the English funds?'
'He said something as to the expediency of selling them, and I differed from him.'
'You thought it would be better for the lady's interest that they should remain unsold?'
'I made no question of the lady's interest. I was not her trustee.'
'But the shares were bought with the lady's money.'