Meanwhile, you will facilitate your release and greatly help us in what we have to do, if you will carry your fortitude to the point of showing me in your own person just where you were standing when this young girl dashed by you to her death." "Do you mean for me to go back to that--that----" "Yes, Mrs.Taylor.Surely you can do so if you will.

When you have time to think, you will be as anxious as ourselves to know through whose carelessness (to call it nothing worse) this child came to her death.
Though it may prove to be quite immaterial whether you stood in one place or another at that fatal moment, it is a question which will be sure to come up at the inquest.

That you may be able to answer correctly I urge you to return with me to the exact spot, before your recollection of the same has had time to fade.

After that we will go below and I will see that you are taken to some quiet place where you can remain undisturbed till the Coroner comes." Had she been a weak woman she would have succumbed again at this.

But she was a strong one, and after the first moment of recoil she rose tremulously to her feet and signified her willingness to follow him to the scene of death.
"Is--is she there alone ?" was her sole question as they crossed the corridor separating the room they had been in from the galleries.
"No--you will find an officer there.