Immediately after the judge's carriage came that of the squire, who was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs.Brown and Mrs.Hastings, for Helen had insisted that her father should procure their attendance.

A private room in the prison had, by previous arrangement, been prepared for them, and to this they were conducted by a back way, so as to avoid the crushing of the crowd.

It was by this way also that the judge and lawyers entered the body of the court-house, without passing through the congregated mass.
At length the judge, having robed himself, took his seat on the bench, and, on casting his eye over the court-house, was astonished at the dense multitude that stood before him.

On looking at the galleries, he saw that they were crowded with ladies of rank and fashion.

Every thing having been now ready, the lawyers, each with his brief before him, and each with a calm, but serious and meditative aspect, the Clerk of the Crown cried out, in a voice which the hum of the crowd rendered necessarily loud: "Mr.Jailer, put William Reilly to the bar." At that moment a stir, a murmur, especially among the ladies in the gallery, and a turning of faces in the direction of the bar, took place as Reilly came forward, and stood erect in front of the judge.