Witness had looked at the card; did not understand it; but put it in an envelope and gave it to Mr.Wilde.
Mr.Oscar Wilde was then called and went into the witness box.

He looked a little grave but was composed and serious.

Sir Edward Clarke took him briefly through the incidents of his life: his successes at school and the University; the attempts made to blackmail him, the insults of Lord Queensberry, and then directed his attention to the allegations in the plea impugning his conduct with different persons.
Mr.Oscar Wilde declared that there was no truth in any of these statements.

Hereupon Sir Edward Clarke sat down.

Mr.Carson rose and the death duel began.
Mr.Carson brought out that Oscar Wilde was forty years of age and Lord Alfred Douglas twenty-four.