‘…the jury hereby declares Jonathan Brown guilty and sentences him to the gallows!’ A shocked gasp rippled through the crowd. That angelic looking man was surely not capable of the crime he was being sentenced for, were the murmurs in the courtroom. The young man stood in the dock with his head bowed and body limp. Only an observant onlooker would have noticed his knuckles turning white as rage made him grip the railing. Behind her veiled pillbox hat, Violet’s eyes looked at Jonathan, willing him to look up and look her way.