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. Melusine did not try to fight her captor, for that would only make him angry. The scent of cloying pine dust filled the air as floodlights shone eerily through the jungle gym of new wood.
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