"
"How very dreadful!" said Miss Palliser.
"And yet I feel that I know it was that other man," said Lady
Chiltern. Lady Laura sat silent through it all, listening with her
eyes intent on her brother's face, with her elbow on the table and
her brow on her hand. She did not speak a word till she found herself
alone with her sister-in-law, and then it was hardly more than a
word. "Violet, they will murder him!" Lady Chiltern endeavoured to
comfort her, telling her that as yet they had heard but one side of
the case; but the wretched woman only shook her head. "I know they
will murder him," she said, "and then when it is too late they will
find out what they have done!"
On the following day the crowd in Court was if possible greater, so
that the benchfellows were very much squeezed indeed. But it was
impossible to exclude from the high seat such men as Mr. Ratler and
Lord Fawn when they were required in the Court as witnesses;--and not
a man who had obtained a seat on the first day was willing to be
excluded on the second.
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