The first of these, the Press Room, a dark close chamber, near Waterman's Hall, obtained its name from an immense wooden machine kept in it, with which such prisoners as refused to plead to their indictments were pressed to death—a species of inquisitorial torture not discontinued until so lately as the early part of the reign of George the Third, when it was abolished by an express statute. ’ ‘Then why,’ demanded Melusine, ‘did you do it?’ Gerald closed his eyes. She spied him sitting on his armless black couch, his feet splayed as he stared at his television blankly.
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