Mr. Chesterton: If she likes, she may.
Judge: She has told you that she made a long stroke because she thought she had made a great score in her own mind against Jasper, and that she made a shorter mark before because she had not made a big score. That is all that could be expected to be got out of her, without a self-contradiction which would amount to perjury.
Mr. Chesterton: I have very little more to ask, and shall get through very quickly. (To witness.) Now, you tell us that your motives were very compelling. You didn’t care much about Edwin Drood, did you?
Witness: No, there was nothing particular about him. I thought he was a nice young fellow.
Mr. Chesterton: You did? You did not call him “base and trivial”?
Witness: When he acted as he did to my brother, I felt angry, and naturally said things I should not have said.
Mr. Chesterton: Your feelings were not very strong?
Witness: No.
Mr. Chesterton: Your motive, you say, was care for your brother and for Miss Rosa Bud?
Witness: That is so.