I wish to say that your character is perfectly clear.

No aspersion whatever has been made on it, except that you said a note had been delivered at the door, though you knew it to have been not so delivered.

You made that statement through fear of a certain individual; you were frightened into telling a lie.

No one inquires into the sources of your fear." But in the general stillness, there was one part of the court that was not still, but the judge made no command of silence there, for in the jury-box there was whispering and consultation.

It went on for some three minutes.