His questioner sat down, leaving an impression on the minds of the people that if the witness had not been Mrs. Tennant's cousin some of his questions would have received different answers.
Mr. Bates stood up.
"About this woman of whom we have heard--was there nothing about her which you noticed?"
"There was."
"What was there about her which you did notice?"
"It struck me that she had been drinking." The witness became voluble all of a sudden. "She seemed to be in a state of excitement, which, probably, was induced by drink. She certainly was not a lady. She struck me as being a woman of a certain class. In fact, I was just going to suggest to Tennant that he should get into another compartment, when the train was off."
"Why were you going to make that suggestion to Mr. Tennant?"
"Because I knew that he was a shy, nervous sort of fellow, who easily loses his presence of mind, and I thought that, cooped up in a compartment alone with a woman of that sort, who was in that condition, without a stoppage before he got to town, there might be unpleasantness."
"You thought it probable that she might annoy him?"
"I thought it extremely probable."