’ Gerald frowned in an effort of memory, and then laughed as he recalled one of the lies she had invented for his benefit. 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. " "The very reason why I like him, Winny. While he was thus employed, his nerves underwent a severe shock. Altogether, it was the most dreadful noise he had ever heard.
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