"Extremely agitated."
"Wasn't his story to you somewhat confused in the telling?"
"Very confused, yes, sir."
"And perhaps the outlines blurred still more in your memory by the lapse of time?"
"Perhaps. I meant to speak of that myself," answered Serena, brightening. Whereat the entire court-room brightened. Shagarach's inflections became kind, almost genial now. One would have thought she was his own witness, he stroked her so gently.
"And his accent was somewhat hard to follow?"
"Oh, very."
"He is not perfectly familiar with our language as yet?"
"No, he speaks it poorly."
The court-room was all curiosity.