She dropped her eyes from his.
"I—didn't—realise—" she said in confusion.
He bent forward slightly. It was an attitude well known at the Law Courts. "Didn't realise—" he repeated in his quiet, insistent fashion.
She met his look again—against her will.
"I didn't realise what sort of man I had to deal with," she said.
"Ah!" said Field. "And now?"
She shrank a little. There was something intolerably keen in his calm utterance.
"I didn't do it," she said rather breathlessly. "Please remember that!"
"I do," he said.
But yet his look racked her. She threw out her hands with a sudden, desperate gesture and rose.