I DEMAND it!" She stood, white, stern, inexorable, by his couch, and laid her hand upon his shoulder.
He paused once more.

Then he murmured feebly, in a querulous tone, "What witnesses?
Whom do you wish to be present ?" Hilda spoke clearly and distinctly.

She had thought it all out with herself beforehand.

"Such witnesses as will carry absolute conviction to the mind of all the world; irreproachable, disinterested witnesses; official witnesses.

In the first place, a commissioner of oaths.