His answers gave anything but satisfaction
to the Sheriff, though Mrs. Logan believed them to be mainly
truth. But there were a few questions and answers that struck her
above all others.
"How long is it since Mrs. Calvert and you became acquainted?"
"About a year and a half."
"State the precise time, if you please; the day, or night, according
to your remembrance."
"It was on the morning of the 28th of February, 1705."
"What time of the morning?"
"Perhaps about one."
"So early as that? At what place did you meet then?"
"It was at the foot of one of the north wynds of Edinburgh." "Was
it by appointment that you met?"
"No, it was not."
"For what purpose was it then?"
"For no purpose."
"How is it that you chance to remember the day and hour so
minutely, if you met that woman, whom you have accused,
merely by chance, and for no manner of purpose, as you must
have met others that night, perhaps to the amount of hundreds, in
the same way?"
"I have good cause to remember it, my lord."
"What was that cause?--No answer?--You don't choose to say
what that cause was?"
"I am not at liberty to tell.
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