WITNESS: I am a healthy young woman, but I did not eat it all. I had a little of the fish, some of the cutlet, and some of the sherry. MR. CHESTERTON: How much sherry? WITNESS: I had a glass. JUDGE: It is important to insist whether the glasses were ordinary wine glasses. A JURYMAN (Mr. EDWIN PUGH): I think it is not a fair question. JUDGE: Any question is fair that tends to bring out the truth. We have no reason to suppose that all the people in the Court are not lying—nay, even are not supporting fictitious characters! THE JURYMAN: But a sherry glass might be a tumbler. MR. CHESTERTON: Miss Landless, I press you. You say you only drank one glass. The remainder of the pint you left in the bottle. WITNESS: I did not say that. MR. CHESTERTON: What did you do? WITNESS: If I must say, there were receptacles in the room used by smokers. Some went that way, some I left in the bottle, and some I drank. MR. CHESTERTON: Were not people present? WITNESS: Not all the time. Only part of the time. MR. CHESTERTON: They retired simultaneously? WITNESS: No; there were not many there when I went in. Some left at once; some finished their dinners and went away. MR. CHESTERTON: And the fortunate moment arrived when you could pour out the sherry? WITNESS: There are such things as fortunate moments. MR. CHESTERTON: Your taste in food and drink interests me a little. I shall return to the Crozier. But later on, when staying at Tope’s, you used to have an evening meal prepared for you, consisting of bread and cheese and salad and ale? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: Was that the sort of meal you were accustomed to at Miss Twinkleton’s? WITNESS: But, you see, I was not at Miss Twinkleton’s. MR. CHESTERTON: But there would not have been anything eccentric about coffee or tea? WITNESS: I think it would be a very feminine beverage. MR. CHESTERTON: Very well. You told my learned friend that you did not really lose your way from the Crozier to Tope’s? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: The truth of your story you are prepared to stake on that being so? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: Will the Jury look at page 191 of the book?[2] There it states “he soon became bewildered, and went boggling about and about the Cathedral tower, whenever he could catch a glimpse of it....” (_To the witness._) You could catch a glimpse of it when you liked? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: There was no question of catching a glimpse of it. You could go straight to it if you wanted to? WITNESS: If you are quoting from the book. MR. CHESTERTON: We are quoting from something that is admitted as evidence. Every statement made here must be taken as being true. WITNESS: But that was a blind. MR. CHESTERTON: I want to carry you further, Miss Landless—“with a general impression on his mind that Mrs. Tope’s was somewhere very near it.” Is that the general impression on your mind? WITNESS: I knew exactly where to go to Mrs. Tope’s.