"What on earth has that to do with it, Sir Terence?" the president
rebuked him, out of his earnest desire to cut this examination as
short as possible.
"The question, sir, does not seem to me to be without point,"
replied O'Moy. He was judicially smooth and self-contained. "It is
intended to enable us to form an opinion as to the lapse of time
between her ladyship's hearing the cry and reaching the balcony."
Grudgingly the president admitted the point, and the question was
repeated.
"Ye-es," came Lady O'Moy's tremulous, faltering answer, "I was in
bed."
"But not asleep - or were you asleep?" rapped O'Moy again, and in
answer to the president's impatient glance again explained himself:
"We should know whether perhaps the cry might not have been repeated
several times before her ladyship heard it. That is of value."
"It would be more regular," ventured the judge-advocate, "if Sir
Terence would reserve his examination of the witness until she has
given her evidence."
"Very well," grumbled Sir Terence, and he sat back, foiled for the
moment in his deliberate intent to torture her into admissions that
must betray her if made.
"I was not asleep," she told the court, thus answering her husband's
last question.
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