"When was the last time you saw Mrs. Doherty alive?"
"Two days before—I mean Saturday, August 15th. She came over for some bacon. She'd forgot it in shopping."
"Did you, for instance, call each other by your first names?"
"Ayah, did, matter of fact. I'm a mite old-fashioned, but we did."
"All right. Now back to the Monday morning. You went to the pond. What if anything did you find there?"
"She—in the water—I couldn't reach—"
"Miss Welsh, try to be impersonal, won't you? Remember the jury never knew these people. Now: when you came to the pond, just describing things impersonally, what did you see?"
"I saw—the body of a woman in the water."
"How was she dressed?"