19/33 Then, when he saw the surgeon at the other end of the room, he got up and went across to Lechmere's bed. "I swear to you on my honour as a gentleman that you are altogether wrong. From the moment that I got into my dog cart at Bennett's I never saw Martha again. I know nothing whatever of this talk in the garden. Did you think you saw me as well as heard me ?" "No, you were on one side of that high wall and I on the other, but I heard enough to know who it was. |