“You recollect Hubert Dorrien’s disappearance, Dr Ingelow?” continued the prosecution, having brought the examination down to that stage. “Perfectly.”

“That was nearly five months after the prisoner had left Wandsborough, was it not?”

“About that time.”

“And you had seen nothing of him since?”

“Nothing whatever.”

“Did you know his whereabouts at that time?”

“I had not an idea of it.”

“Will you swear to that?”

“Emphatically.”

“When did you see him next?”