"How long have you been a servant in the Arnold house, Miss Lund?" asked Badger, who was conducting the case for the government.
"Going on six years."
"And you have known the prisoner all this time?"
"Of course."
"You were in at the time of the fire, on Saturday?"
"I was."
"And gave the alarm, did you not?"
"I did."
Bertha's rising inflection had hardly varied in the last three answers, and her blue eyes were riveted on the lawyer's.
"Won't you tell the court how you were occupied prior to your discovery of the fire?"