Witness. "Quite positive."
The Attorney-general. "Did the prisoner make any reply?"
Witness. "None; and his silence appeared to infuriate my mistress. She cried out after him, 'You are a villain! you are a villain!'"
The Attorney-general. "Did you see the prisoner again during the morning?"
Witness. "No. In a few minutes I heard the street door open and close, and my mistress told me to run and see whether it was her husband going out. I went to the front-room window, and saw him enter the carriage and drive away. I returned to my mistress and informed her of it. She was in a furious state, and if she had had the strength she would have dressed herself and followed him; but she was too weak, unassisted, to get out of bed."
The Attorney-general. "Upon that point you are also positive?"
Witness. "Quite positive."
The Attorney-general. "Did your mistress make you acquainted with the cause of the quarrel between her and the prisoner?"
Witness. "She told me a good deal. She said that when she married him it was the worst day's work she had ever done, and that he had deceived her from first to last. All he wanted was for her to die but although he had treated her so vilely, she had him in her power."
The Attorney-general. "What did she mean by that? Did she explain?"