Indeed, it would be very seldom that he would even enter the kitchen, except to bring in vegetables.

Certainly he would never pass through to go upstairs.
He could not possibly have done so without exciting attention and remarks." "He would therefore, Mr.Ellison, have no means of possessing any knowledge as to the internal arrangements of your house, beyond that possessed by the other people in the village ?" "None whatever," Mr.Ellison replied.
"Now, as to that unfortunate affair of the poisoning of your dog.
Your opinion, as to the innocence of the prisoner in that matter, is not a recent one--not the outcome of his after good conduct and character ?" "Not at all," Mr.Ellison said.

"I changed my opinion on the matter very shortly, indeed, after the affair." "Within a few days, I think I may say ?" the counsel asked.
"Within a very few days; I may almost say within a few hours," the squire replied.

"The boy's story, told not to me but to another, that he believed the dog was poisoned by another lad in the village who owed him a grudge, and who has since turned out an exceedingly bad character, struck me as being very much more probable than that he should do it, himself." Mrs.Ellison was next called.

Her evidence as to the robbery was a mere repetition of that given by the squire.