"Summing up then, Miss Nolan: knowing her as you do, and seeing her, I suppose, every week-day during last July--you're convinced that most of that time she was behaving like one in the grip of a serious depression with the possibility of suicide?" "I don't have any doubt of it, Mr. Warner--now. I ought not to have been in doubt at the time. If anyone is guilty in this case it's myself, because I ought to have stayed with her just about every minute until she won her way out of that mood. Then there would have been no chance for the horrible accident that makes it possible to charge her with--" "Objection!" "Objection sustained." She looked up with understanding and no reproach. The man in private applauded her doubtless intentional violation of rules, while the Judge must condemn. "The witness's answer will have to be stricken." _It comes to me, I did not add that the jury is to disregard it. That all right, Red?_ "Miss Nolan, I understand you weren't present at a certain picnic in Shanesville last August 7th. Did you know about it at the time?" "Yes. I closed the studio that afternoon--the weather was impossibly hot. Cal said her mother was having one of her picnics, and thought she might go. Cal didn't ordinarily care for that sort of thing, but I--oh, I guess I just told her to run along and have a good time." "Did Callista speak later of seeing the Dohertys at that picnic?" "Yes, Monday. All she said was that they were there, and she hadn't talked with either of them. I asked if she was--cured, and she said: 'Oh, Edith, I can't talk about it yet, I can't.' I had to let it go at that. All that week she was very blue. She was working hard--too hard; volunteered to straighten out some of my records. Afraid to relax, maybe." "When did you last see Callista before her arrest?" "Friday, August 14th, when she left the studio after work." "What did her mood seem to be at that time?" "Tired, unhappy, withdrawn--but maybe a little more composed. I knew that, left to herself and barring unforeseeable accidents, she'd find good and reasonable answers to her troubles, but--Mr. Warner, it's strangely difficult to help anyone you love." "Did you talk to her on the phone that week end any time?"