Chief Justice Monahan made a short, impartial speech, throwing the dry, white light of truth upon the conflicting and passionate statements.

First of all, he said, it was difficult to believe in the story of rape whether with or without chloroform.

If the girl had been violated she would be expected to cry out at the time, or at least to complain to her father as soon as she reached home.

Had it been a criminal trial, he pointed out, no one would have believed this part of Miss Travers' story.

When you find a girl does not cry out at the time and does not complain afterwards, and returns to the house to meet further rudeness, it must be presumed that she consented to the seduction.
But was there a seduction?
The girl asserted that there was guilty intimacy, and Sir William Wilde had not contradicted her.