CHAPTER II. 



PROSECUTOR — PRISONER — DEFENDANT — QUESTIONS OF 

 CRIMINAL LAW — COMFORT — A POSER — CHANGE OF 

 CHARACTER — STRANGE— MISS SOMEBODY — CASE FOR 

 THE CHANCELLOR— OR JURY— QUESTION OF COSTUME 

 —THE MARTYR— TOUCHING FAREWELL— A DEMAIN. 



TOLD her that being "summoned" only meant 

 that she was to attend at a poHce-court. 



" Good gracious ! " exclaimed my Aunt ; " and 

 be in the papers next day, with only my Christian 

 name, and nothing before it ! Besides," she added, as if 

 seeing it in a totally new light, " one doesn't know what sort 

 of account they'll give of it." 



I informed her that there were twenty or thirty ordinary 

 summons cases occuring every day which were never reported. 

 I don't think she liked this mode of summarily dismissing 

 a matter of all-absorbing interest. 



"Which am I," she asked, " the Prosecutor or the — the — 

 what is it .'' — Prisoner ? " 



^' No, not exactly Prisoner," I said. " She was," I ex- 

 plained, putting it as palatably as possible, " the Defendant." 

 This seemed to alter her opinion of the importance of the 



