The sight was too painful.

He looked around him over the densely packed crowd, in which he recognized many of his old friends and neighbors, a great number of his clansmen and nearly all the old servants of his family.
Although the month was October, and the weather cool in that northern climate, the atmosphere of such a packed crowd would have been unbearable but for the fact that the six tall windows that flanked the court-room on each side were let down from the top for ventilation.
The duke turned his attention to the Bench.
There seemed to be some pause in the proceedings.

The judges were sitting in perfect silence.

The prosecuting counsel were arranging papers and occasionally speaking to each other in low tones.
The duke turned to a gentleman, a stranger, who was sitting on his left, and inquired: "I have heard that the girl Cameron is not to be arraigned.

I have also heard that she is held as a witness for the crown.