"Yes."
"This is a very singular transaction: I cannot perceive the meaning of it. You certainly must be sensible that you made an advantageous bargain?"
"Yes."
"But you depone that he charged you to tell only the truth?"
"Yes, he did, and before witnesses, too."
Here Mr Forret's counsel began to crow amain, as if the victory had been his own; but the junior Judge again took him short by saying, "Have patience, sir.—My good woman, I esteem your principles and plain simplicity very highly. We want only to ascertain the truth, and you say your master charged you to tell that only. Tell me this, then—did he not inform you what the truth was?"
"Yes. It was for that purpose he came over to see me, to help my memory to what was the truth, for fear I should hae sworn wrang; which wad hae been a great sin, ye ken."
"Yes, it would so. I thought that would be the way.—You may now proceed with your questions regularly, Mr Wood."
"Are you quite conscious, now, that those things he brought to your remembrance were actually the truth?"
"No."