“She couldn’t talk English. Mary Monson talked with her, I didn’t, to any account.”
“Were you at the fire?”
“I was.”
“Did you see anything of this German during the fire, or afterwards?”
“I didn’t. She disappeared, unaccountable!”
“Did you visit the Goodwins as often after Mary Monson came to live with them, as you had done previously?”
“I didn’t—grand looks and grand language isn’t agreeable to me.”
“Did Mary Monson ever speak to you?”
“I think, your honour,” objected Williams, who did not like the question, “that this is travelling out of the record.”
“Let the gentleman proceed—time is precious, and a discussion would lose us more of it than to let him proceed—go on, Mr. Dunscomb.”