"I went nowhere but to Justice Thornycroft's."
"For what purpose did you go there?"
"To fetch Miss Chester. She was to have been sent for at eight o'clock, but master and mistress forgot it. When it was on the stroke of nine they told me to go for her."
"Which you did?"
"Which I did, and without stopping to put anything on."
"Did you meet anybody as you went?"
"Yes; nearly close to the Red Court gates I met Mr. Hunter and young Cyril Thornycroft."
"Walking together towards the village?" interposed the coroner.
"Walking on that way. Mr. Hunter was buttoning himself up tight in that blessed fine coat of his."
"Did they seem angry with each other?"