A. He was talking with a gentleman when I entered.
Q. This rests upon your own testimony?
A. We afterwards joined a party, but no person heard the conversation but ourselves, except that any person might hear me when I became vociferous.
Q. You quite met my approbation when you told me that you considered this as base as if he had asked you to go on the highway—how came you to propose a friend of yours after that?
A. It was merely for the purpose of having a witness to the offer to me, because if not, and this took place what I had said would have been of no effect had it been rendered completely abortive by this failing with me.
Q. Then am I to understand you thought it better to let this wickedness be practised in order that it might afterwards be proved?
A. I am sorry I am so misunderstood, I only wished it should not be promulgated to the world merely on my ipse dixit, but on the testimony of another.
Q. You did introduce him to your friend?
A. No, I did not, he would not be introduced. I had communicated to my friend the business in question before he came.