JUDGE: I think that is fair. MR. CHESTERTON: What is he? WITNESS: A lawyer. MR. CHESTERTON: What sort of business does he carry on? MR. WALTERS: She doesn’t know. MR. CHESTERTON: I submit she knows nothing about Mr. Grewgious, and that she has not had correspondence with him. MR. WALTERS: The official record says she did know Mr. Grewgious, and saw him in his Chambers. MR. CHESTERTON: She might know Mr. Grewgious, but have no correspondence with him. I am asking what sort of business he carries on. WITNESS: I know he is a lawyer. MR. CHESTERTON: And nothing more? WITNESS: Women don’t interest themselves very much in these things. JUDGE: No, I think that’s fair. MR. CHESTERTON: Now, the next time we hear anything of the official records, Miss Landless, you were back again in London. How was that?—in your own proper person, and ceased to be Datchery. WITNESS: I went up in the evening. MR. CHESTERTON: In the evening? WITNESS: By the last ’bus and train. MR. CHESTERTON: What time? WITNESS: The ’bus that leaves the Crozier. MR. CHESTERTON: What time? WITNESS: I forget exactly, but I think about six. MR. CHESTERTON: Had you any reason for going up? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: What was it? WITNESS: I wanted to see my brother. MR. CHESTERTON: There was no particular reason why that day more than any other day? WITNESS: No, I think not. MR. CHESTERTON: I suppose you will admit you were running a certain risk of discovery? WITNESS: Yes, there was some, but I thought I should be able to avoid it. MR. CHESTERTON: Anybody might follow you? WITNESS: Might. MR. CHESTERTON: You were a stranger in Cloisterham. Anybody might have followed you to London. You were running that risk for no particular reason at all? WITNESS: Oh! but I knew my brother was very, very unhappy, and I knew I could cheer him and comfort him, and he was very, very dear to me. MR. CHESTERTON: Your visit had nothing to do with Rosa’s visit to London? WITNESS: I did not know she was there. MR. CHESTERTON: Mr. Grewgious had not written and asked you to go? WITNESS: No. MR. CHESTERTON: No reason? WITNESS: Yes; the reason I have given you. MR. CHESTERTON: But there was no particular reason? WITNESS: Is it not particular to go and cheer one who is closely bound to you? JUDGE: I think the witness’s remark is quite clear. She says she had an impulse in an avowedly emotional atmosphere to go and see somebody. MR. CHESTERTON: Very well. (_To witness._) You met, you have told us, an opium woman? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: And you had a conversation with her, and afterwards made a mark on your score—your Cingalese score? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: A moderate mark; then you saw her, in the Cathedral, shake her fist at Jasper? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: Then you made a big mark. What was the meaning of that? MR. WALTERS: I am not sure that she is bound to answer that question. It is sufficient that she made the mark.