JUDGE MANN: Do I understand, Mr. Hunter, that you wish to have read to the jury the letters that were admitted in evidence before adjournment yesterday? MR. HUNTER: Yes, your Honor. I am prepared to read--to go ahead with that right away. JUDGE MANN: Let them be read by the clerk of the court. MR. DELEHANTY: Your Honor, I have a--not laryngitis exactly, but a sort of cold. I'm perfectly ready to do as the Court directs, only I'm afraid that with this cold or whatever it is, maybe my voice won't be too clear to the jury. JUDGE MANN: Well ... Yes, Mr. Warner? MR. WARNER: Your Honor, the defense will not object to a reading of these letters by Mr. Hunter himself. I am certain my learned colleague would never take any improper advantage of his dramatic ability, admittedly great. Very often, however, written words are capable of conveying different meanings according to where the emphasis is placed, not because of any willful misconstruction, but simply because our language is not always a precise instrument. Therefore I would only stipulate, request rather, that if there should be any doubt in my mind, or in my client's mind, that the meaning of the letters is being correctly conveyed, we may have the privilege of interrupting the reading at that point, to indicate what we believe is the right interpretation. JUDGE MANN: Is that agreeable to you, Mr. Hunter? MR. HUNTER: Yes, your Honor, so long as the interruptions have to do with important points, not trivialities. MR. WARNER: Sir, there are no trivialities in this case. MR. HUNTER: Subject to the limitation I mentioned, the request of the defense appears reasonable, and I will not argue it. JUDGE MANN: You may proceed, Mr. Hunter. MR. HUNTER: The first of these letters, acknowledged by the defense to have been written by Callista Blake to James Doherty, is dated the 10th of May, 1959. Members of the jury, my dramatic ability is not, as Mr. Warner has described it, great. Any drama here is provided by the force of events, not by me. I must simply ask you to remember, while you hear these letters, that they (that is, the first three and the fifth) were written by a girl nineteen years of age, in the summer of this year, under the influence of a love affair which the testimony of witnesses has established and the defense has not denied. The first letter reads as follows: "Jimmy--