A. With Sir Calvin’s permission, I think I may say yes.
Q. You have seen the prisoner before?
A. Many times.
Q. Could you, as a guest, speak to his general character?
A. It has always appeared to me quite unexceptionable.
Q. Not a violent man?
A. O! dear, no.
Q. At dinner, on the night before the murder, did you notice anything peculiar about him?
A. He appeared to me to be upset about something.
Q. And you wondered, perhaps—having only arrived that afternoon, as I understand—what domestic tribulation could have discomposed so stately a character? (Laughter.)