Witness. "He must have taken a short cut back across some fields. If I had been on my box I might have seen him, but I was standing in the road, and there was a hedge, more than man high, on the side he came back to me."
The Attorney-general. "What did you do when he reappeared?"
Witness. "I prepared to start."
The Attorney-general. "Did he tell you immediately where to drive to?"
Witness. "No, sir. He stood considering, just as he did when we first set out."
The Attorney-general. "And then?"
Witness. "He told me to drive back the way we had come, but not to drive too quickly."
The Attorney-general. "You did so?"
Witness. "Yes, sir."
The Attorney-general. "Where did you next stop?"