MR. CHESTERTON: Had it not been for the fact that you were a woman, I take it you ask us to believe that you would have written up in ordinary writing all that you thought and speculated about Jasper on the cupboard door? WITNESS: I do not ask you to believe anything of the kind, for I should not have been so foolish. I could have written some words if I had wished to, but I would not write at all. MR. CHESTERTON: You used the old tavern way of keeping scores. Where did you learn that? WITNESS: In Ceylon. MR. CHESTERTON: What is the Cingalese tavern way? WITNESS: I have not been brought up in a drawing-room, but among a very rough set of people. My step-father was a low, common man, and frequented taverns, and we children could go inside and outside or anywhere. MR. CHESTERTON: Are there taverns in Ceylon? WITNESS: I don’t know that they call them taverns. MR. CHESTERTON: Do you suggest that the phrase “old tavern way of keeping scores” refers to Ceylon? WITNESS: My chalk marks revert to the time when I was there. MR. CHESTERTON: How did you keep scores in Ceylon? WITNESS: I did not keep scores there, but I saw other people. MR. CHESTERTON: How do you know how they were kept? WITNESS: I did not say I did know exactly, but I learned that a little mark meant a certain quantity, a bigger mark more, and so on. MR. CHESTERTON: You like the old tavern way of keeping scores, but do not know how it is done? WITNESS: I know that a man that had quarts had large strokes, and a man that had pints smaller ones. MR. CHESTERTON: You swear that was done in Ceylon? WITNESS: I swear that sort of thing was done there. MR. CHESTERTON: What sort of drinks do they have there? WITNESS: I never had their drinks. I saw them drinking, but I did not know what it was. But I saw the scores being kept on the back of the door. MR. CHESTERTON: Do you know what they were drinking at all? WITNESS: I took it for spirits, and beer, and so on. MR. CHESTERTON: So you knew little about the drinking, but a great deal about the scoring? WITNESS: That interested me as a child. My brother and I used to talk about it. MR. CHESTERTON: What was the purpose of the scores? WITNESS: The tavern keepers would do it to know what was due from Tom Scott, or Jim Price. MR. CHESTERTON: You told us that you undertook the Datchery impersonation, so to speak, in collaboration with Mr. Grewgious? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: May I take it you know him well? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: Frequently correspond with him? WITNESS: I correspond with him. MR. CHESTERTON: Receive letters from him? WITNESS: I have had letters from him. MR. CHESTERTON: You know his profession? WITNESS: A lawyer. MR. CHESTERTON: What sort? WITNESS: I don’t know. JUDGE: He is a lawyer, and I think that covers it. He is, indeed, a particular kind of solicitor, but I think a lady might well be excused for not knowing that. MR. WALTERS: A lawyer covers everything.