"It's—it's truth," said Todd, "that staggers your worship."
"Well, you can try what effect it will have upon a jury. I commit you for trial on the charge of wilful murder."
"Murder of whom?"
"Charles James Thornhill."
"Oh, your worship, he is alive and well, and now in Havannah. If I have murdered him, where is the body?"
"We are prepared," said the Attorney General, "with that objection. At the trial we will tell the jury where the body is."
Mrs. Lovett, now having sufficiently recovered, was brought into court to hear that she was committed for trial, but she made no remark upon that circumstance whatever; and in the course of a few moments another shout from the multitude without announced that the prisoners were off to Newgate.
CHAPTER CXXII.
A LARGE PARTY VISITS BIG BEN AND THE LIONS IN THE TOWER.
On the morning following the committal of Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney Todd to Newgate for trial, a rather large party met at the office of Sir Richard Blunt, in Craven Street, Strand. The fact was that after the proceedings at the police-office, Big Ben had earnestly besought them all to name the day to visit him and the lions in the Tower, and as no day was so convenient to Sir Richard as that immediately following, it was arranged that they were all to meet at the private office in Craven Street, and go there by water to the Tower.
The sun shone beautifully; and to look at that party no one would have supposed that there had ever been such persons as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett in the world.