Ross replied that he and Turner had been trying to bring that about for hours.

In the middle of the conversation Bosie, having returned, burst into the room with: "I want to see my cousin," and Ross rejoined Oscar.

In a quarter of an hour Bosie followed him to say that he was going out with Wyndham to see someone of importance.
About five o'clock a reporter of the _Star_ newspaper came to see Oscar, a Mr.Marlowe, who is now editor of _The Daily Mail_, but again Oscar refused to see him and sent Ross.

Mr.Marlowe was sympathetic and quite understood the position; he informed Ross that a tape message had come through to the paper saying that a warrant for Oscar Wilde had already been issued.

Ross immediately went into the other room and told Oscar, who said nothing, but "went very grey in the face." A moment later Oscar asked Ross to give him the money he had got at the bank, though he had refused it several times in the course of the day.