Your second trial resulted in an acquittal, though the public attitude towards you was dubious.

The judge, in summing up, said that the evidence against you 'might be deemed insufficient.' In these words he conveyed the popular opinion.

I see I have noted here that Miss Margaret Hume-Frazer was at a Covent Garden Fancy Dress Ball on the night of the murder.

But the tragic deaths of her father and brother had a marked influence on the young lady.
She, of course, succeeded to the estates, and decided at once to live at Beechcroft.

Does she still live there ?" "Yes.