"Did you not say your husband told you so?
"(No answer.)
"Who hurts these children? Now look upon them.—I cannot help it.
"Did you not say you would tell the truth why you asked that question? how came you to the knowledge?—I did but ask.
"You dare thus to lie in all this assembly. You are now before authority. I expect the truth: you promised it. Speak now, and tell who told you what clothes.—Nobody.
"How came you to know that the children would be examined what clothes you wore?—Because I thought the child was wiser than anybody if she knew.
"Give an answer: you said your husband told you.—He told me the children said I afflicted them.
"How do you know what they came for? Answer me this truly: will you say how you came to know what they came for?—I had heard speech that the children said I troubled them, and I thought that they might come to examine.
"But how did you know it?—I thought they did.
"Did not you say you would tell the truth? who told you what they came for?—Nobody.