Mr. Chesterton: Yes.
Witness: Because I thought, when she shook her fist at Jasper, and putting with that the fact that she had followed him, I concluded that she knew something against him, and I thought I had scored, and scored heavily.
Mr. Chesterton: Is that all?
Witness: I had learned more than that. I had learned that Edwin Drood had given her money for opium on Christmas Eve.
Mr. Chesterton: What did that prove?
Judge: We must not go into what that could prove. The witness has given a perfectly clear and definite account of her proceedings, and I strongly suggest that unless there is some particular point to be made, she should now be released from the witness-box, because the other point whether she knows anything about the scoring at inns, or whether such practices are common in Ceylon, must be left to later discussion.
Mr. Chesterton: That is not the point I am trying to make; but that there was no reason why she should make the score, and I asked why she made it. I believe she did not.
Judge: But if she replies that she makes long or short chalk marks, in accordance with the ebullitions of her emotional nature——
Mr. Chesterton: She is entitled to do so.
Judge: That would be an answer, and the only answer to which you will be entitled at the moment.