"I believe my husband implicitly," Peggy said, and there was a little quaver in her voice.
"Do you recognise the handwriting?" Sir Robert asked.
"I have never seen it before," she answered.
The judge looked intently at the K.C. "I don't want to interrupt you, Sir Robert," he said; "but do you know whose handwriting it is?"
"No, my lord," Sir Robert replied. "I am really asking for information."
"It is very curious," said the judge.
"It is, my lord," said Sir Robert. "My learned friend, Mr. Carteret, who is watching the case on behalf of Miss Admaston, informs me that he has had it submitted to every well-known handwriting expert in the United Kingdom, and indeed in Europe."
"And compared with the writing of every person however remotely connected with the parties concerned in this case?"
"He has even had it compared with Mrs. Admaston's, my lord."
"And no doubt with Mr. Collingwood's?" the judge continued.