Witness. "No."
The Attorney-general. "For how long had this been the case?"
Witness. "For a good many months. Ever since things began to get worse between them."
The Attorney-general. "Proceed. You heard your mistress's bell ring, and you entered her room at ten o'clock."
Witness. "She said that she had passed a very bad night, that she had had dreadful dreams, and that she was afraid something terrible was going to happen to her. She asked me if her husband was up, and I told her that he had just entered the breakfast-room, that I had met him on the stairs, and that he inquired whether she were awake, as he wished to speak to her before he went out. My mistress said that she also wished to speak to him, and she asked me if I knew where he was going. Of course I did not know, and I told her so. She often asked me questions which she must have known very well were not possible for me to answer. I washed her, and tidied up the room, and then she desired me to go and tell my master to come to her. I knocked at the door of the breakfast-room three or four times, and receiving no answer, I opened it. My master was sitting at the table, and he started up when I entered, just as if I had aroused him from a dream. His face was very pale, and he held a letter in his hand. I noticed that he had not touched the breakfast. I gave him my mistress's message. He nodded, and went to her room at once. The moment he entered my poor mistress began to talk, but he stopped her and ordered me out. 'Keep in the next room,' my mistress said to me--'I may want you.' I went into the next room, and remained there quite half an hour, until my mistress's bell rang again. My master rushed past me as I opened the door, and I saw that my mistress was dreadfully agitated. She was sitting up in bed, and--"
The Attorney-general. "Stop! While you were in the adjoining room did you hear anything?"
Witness. "Not distinctly."
The Attorney-general. "Do you mean by that that you could not distinguish the words that were spoken by your master and mistress?"
Witness. "I could not distinguish the words. I could only hear their voices when they spoke loudly."
The Attorney-general. "Did they speak loudly on this occasion?"