'Accidental.'
'I said so—accidental. Now, if this case should prove fatal to the prisoner, on his death your client, not a bankrupt, would take the whole of the £100,000?'
'He would.'
'You would then expect to be paid?' No answer. 'I say, you would then expect to be paid?'
'I should hope to be.'
'In full?'
'I should hope so.'
'Then you would be the better by £40,000 by the execution of the prisoner?'
'If you put it so, I should.'
'You made a third and last attempt, a few days ago, to obtain his consent?'