A very celebrated King's Counsel prosecuted--the Cabinet thus said to the Racing World "We've done _all_ we can"-- and Vivie defended herself with the aid of a clever solicitor whom Bertie Adams had found for her.
From the very moment of her arrest, Bertie Adams had refused--even though they took away his salary--to think of anything but Vivie's trial and how she might issue from it triumphant.

He must have lost a stone in weight.

He was ready to give evidence himself, though he was really quite unconcerned with the offences for which Vivie was on trial; prepared to swear to anything; to swear he arranged the conflagrations; that Miss Warren had really been in London when witness had seen her purchasing explosives at Newmarket (both stories were equally untrue).

Bertie Adams only asked to be allowed to perjure himself to the tune of Five Years' penal servitude if that would set Vivie free.

Yet at a word or a look from her he became manageable.
The Attorney General of course began something like this.