Witness. "Yes."
The Attorney-general. "How was it that your mistress became acquainted with him on that occasion, when the fact was that he came upon business?"
Witness. "He was asked by Mr. Beach to stay to dinner, and he stayed."
The Attorney-general. "Mr. Beach, you say, was not in good society. Had he any desire to get into it?"
Witness: "He was crazy about it."
The Attorney-general. "Upon the first occasion of the prisoner dining at Mr. Beach's house, did your mistress make any remark with reference to the prisoner?"
Witness. "She never ceased speaking about him. She said she had seen the handsomest man in the world."
The Attorney-general. "Narrate as briefly as you can what occurred between your mistress and the prisoner up to the time they were engaged."
Witness. "He came five or six times to the house, and every time he came my mistress was more and more in love with him. I understood from what she told me that he was in difficulties, and that he had lost a great deal of money at horse-racing."
The Attorney-general. "Did he keep racing horses?"