A. Nothing. I went on and joined my friend, Sir Calvin, in the house.
Q. The deceased, while you were with her, offered no sort of explanation of her presence in the copse?
A. None whatever.
Q. And you did not seek one?
A. O, dear, no! I should not have been so foolish. (Laughter.)
Q. Did you speak to the prisoner on the subject of the assault?
A. At the time, yes.
Q. And what did you gather from his answer?
A. I gathered that, in his quick ardent way, he was very much enamoured of the girl’s beauty.
Q. And was correspondingly incensed, perhaps, over her rejection of his advances?