Witness. "I heard none."
The Attorney-general. "Did you sleep soundly after that?"
Witness. "No. I was dozing off and waking up the whole of the night--a hundred times, it seemed to me. How I have reproached myself since that when I saw my master put out the gas in the hall I did not have the courage to go down to him!"
The Attorney-general. "At what time in the morning did you usually rise?"
Witness. "At half-past seven, unless my mistress required me earlier."
The Attorney-general. "Was that the hour at which you rose on the morning of the 26th of March?"
Witness. "No; I rose much earlier--at six or a quarter past six I can't say exactly to a minute, because I did not look at my watch."
The Attorney-general. "Then, after dressing, did you go down-stairs?"
Witness. "Yes, with a candle in my hand It was dark."
The Attorney-general. "Any sound in the house?"