The Bells of Sydney by J.D. Hennessey — Read

I learnt by the newspapers that the court on the following day was crowded as had been expected; but I was not there. I had made my supreme effort, and the inevitable reaction followed. I had no heart now for anything, and lay there in my chambers attended by the Doctor, and a nurse he had brought in, and there awaited the verdict.

The Doctor was not at all communicative. The newspaper report of the scene in court during my statement, had fairly carried him off his feet. I gathered from some remarks of the nurse that he had had an anxious time with me, and that I lay unconscious for a long time during the previous night.