"Oh, yes, but not quite so quickly."
"What did you do?"
"We left the train at the first station at which it stopped."
"Did the defendant offer any resistance?"
"No; he looked abashed, and merely observed that perhaps a recent illness had altered him."
Counsel for the defense, at whose left Mr. Bonnithorne sat as attorney for the defendant, cross-examined the witness.
"You say that on the night following the morning of your marriage your husband left you at a convent?"
"I do."
Mr. Bonnithorne dropped his twinkling eyes, and muttered something that was inaudible to the witness. There was a titter among the people who stood behind him.
"And you say that Mrs. Drayton took you the message of which you have spoken. Did she tell you that your husband had been ill?"