“You say that in your opinion the accused was not deeply in love with you.”
“That is what I said.”
“Are you a chivalrous man, Mr. Welman?”
“I don’t know what you mean.”
“If a lady were deeply in love with you and you were not in love with her, would you feel it incumbent upon you to conceal the fact?”
“Certainly not.”
“Where did you go to school, Mr. Welman?”
“Eton.”
Sir Samuel said with a quiet smile:
“That is all.”
V
Alfred James Wargrave.
“You are a rose grower and live at Emsworth, Berks?”
“Yes.”
“Did you on October 20th go to Maidensford and examine a rose tree growing at the Lodge at Hunterbury Hall?”
“I did.”
“Will you describe this tree?”
“It was a climbing rose—Zephyrine Drouhin. It bears a sweetly scented pink flower. It has no thorns.”
“It would be impossible to prick oneself on a rose tree of this description?”
“It would be quite impossible. It is a thornless tree.”
No cross-examination.
VI
“You are James Arthur Littledale. You are a qualified chemist and employed by the wholesale chemists, Jenkins & Hale?”
“I am.”
“Will you tell me what this scrap of paper is?”
The exhibit was handed to him.
“It is a fragment of one of our labels.”
“What kind of label?”
“The label we attach to tubes of hypodermic tablets.”
“Is there enough here for you to say definitely what drug was in the tube to which this label was attached?”