"I will read them myself.

Mr.Roberts, I must ask you to listen.

It is right for you to know exactly what you have written before you affix your signature to it." Mr.Roberts bowed mechanically, but he looked very weary.
The District Attorney began to read.

It is a matter of doubt whether Mr.
Roberts so much as heard him.

Yet the reading went on, and when the last word was reached, the District Attorney, after a pause during which his eye had consulted that of the Chief Inspector, remarked in a kindly tone and yet with an emphasis impossible to disregard: "I see that you have made no mention of Madame Duclos in this relation of the cause and manner of her young daughter's death.