“And this photograph?” continued Mr Grover, handing him another.
“Monsieur Lapasque. They both stayed at our hotel for nearly three months the summer before last. They came in July and left in October.”
“During those months would you have many visitors at your hotel?”
“No; very few. It is not our season.”
“In that case you would have plenty of facilities for observing them?”
“I saw them perhaps a dozen times each day. I superintended the waiting at à déjeûner and table d’hôte.”
“You have no doubt that the lady was the original of that portrait?”
“Not the slightest,” he replied, shrugging his shoulders.
“Have you seen the respondent, Mrs Willoughby, since?” the judge asked, in slow deliberate tones.
“Yes, I saw her here in London a few weeks ago. I was brought to England by Monsieur Willoughby to identify madame and give evidence.”