The Heart of Mid-Lothian Volume 1 Chapter 21

In which the steadfast Jeanie Deans prepares with quiet resolve to attend the trial on behalf of her sister, while her father David Deans wrestles with anxious uncertainty and the stern solemnity of Edinburgh’s judicial environment presses heavily upon them both. Their passage through the jeering crowd into the Court-house reveals the rough indifference of the public and the grim order of legal proceedings, culminating in the sombre moment when the accused is brought before the high bench to await her fate.