"I went to visit a friend at Spalding."
"How was it, then, that you returned to London by the twelve o'clock train the following day--I mean arrived in London at that hour?"
Witness hesitated for some time, and at last looked up defiantly.
"What right have you to ask me such a question?"
Baron Watson: "You are bound to answer, Mrs. Haag."
Witness confusedly: "I did not find my friend at home."
Sergeant Donaldson: "Do you mean to say you took that journey with the chance of finding your friend away?"
"I did."
To the Chief-Justice: "My lord, I am informed by Inspector Keene, of the detective service, that Mrs. Haag never visited Spalding at all; that she took a ticket for Stixwould, at which station she got out, and from which station she returned the following day."
Baron Watson: "I don't see what you are trying to prove, brother Donaldson."