"Silence!" warned the clerk.
"And after that?"
The girl shook her head and there came into her face a look of terrible sadness.
"I don't know what happened after that for a long time. I was very ill and—for years I did not remember these things."
"You mean that for years you did not remember what you have just testified?"
"Yes, that is what I mean."
The room was so hushed in expectation that the tension was like physical pain.
"You did not remember your mother during these years?"
"No."
"Not even her name?"