"Are you prepared to swear that those were the actual words she used?"
"Yuss," defiantly, "I am."
"Then if I put Mrs. Towers in the witness-box, if she denies on oath that she made any such statement to you, she will be guilty of perjury?"
"Well----"
"I want an answer to my question. If Mrs. Towers denies, on oath, that she made any such statement, will she or you be guilty of perjury?"
"Well," the red hands shifted on the rail of the witness-box, "I wouldn't care to say she used those actual words. But that was what she meant."
"You realize that what you are saying is of very grave importance?"
"Yuss."
"But you abide by what you have told us about the conversation between you and the accused?"
"Yuss."