“Was Captain Harry Kintore.”
“Both Weston and Victoire state that they gave you a month’s notice. Is this a fact?”
“It is not,” she replies firmly; “it was I who gave it to them. To Weston for being drunk and impertinent, to Victoire for the latter fault.”
“It is stated by Weston that you were in the habit of receiving frequent visits from Lord Westray? Is this so?”
“It is not,” she answers quickly; “the statement is a wicked falsehood. Only once he obtained admittance, when he came to insult me with the proposal that I should re-marry him and forget the past. You came in when he was there, and requested him to leave the house.”
“Did he do so?”
“At once,” she replies.
“Since then have you been annoyed by his presence, or in any other way?”
“By his presence, no, until the night on which he is alleged to have been murdered, but by letters, yes.”
“You have kept or destroyed those letters?”