Witness: Well, of course, I knew it was Jasper’s, but when Jasper’s house or anything connected with him, was brought to my mind, I always thought it was interesting, and gave a look for that reason.
Mr. Chesterton: But you knew you were going to Jasper’s house?
Witness: Yes.
Mr. Chesterton: But why did you give it a second look?
Witness: Because I was so interested.
Mr. Chesterton: You knew it was Jasper’s, because the boy said it was Jasper’s, and you gave it “a look of some interest”!
Witness: We know that dinner is ready, but we look with interest at it before we sit down to it.
Mr. Chesterton: You knew it was Jasper’s, and gave “a second look of some interest” when told it was Jasper’s. Now you went to Tope’s, and you met, as you told us, Jasper and Mr. Sapsea, and other people. Now you kept your record, you told us, in chalk, and you told us that one of your reasons for doing that was that you must evade discovery of your handwriting?
Witness: That is so.
Mr. Chesterton: Had it not been for the fact that you were a woman, I take it you ask us to believe that you would have written up in ordinary writing all that you thought and speculated about Jasper on the cupboard door?