Mr. Clegg: Will you swear he did not frame a portrait of your husband’s mother?—No, he did not. There was one in a pot frame.
The Stipendiary said something to Mr. Clegg, who replied, “I will show the portrait to you, sir. I do not want to prove anything that is not material.”
Mr. Clegg: This is a material object; a most material object.
The Stipendiary: It is not, in my idea, of sufficient importance to be gone on with.
Mr. Clegg: I think you will see, when I bring out what I want to know about this portrait, that it is a very material object.
The Stipendiary: Very well, I will say no more; but if it is merely a question of general credibility, it is unnecessary.
Mr. Clegg: Did you ever ask him to frame this portrait—this picture of your mother?—Yes. I was to get a large one of my mother. I mentioned it to him about framing them, but I never got the photographs.
Did you ask him to frame your mother’s portrait?—Yes; but he never did it.
Mr. Clegg: Did you write him any letter?
Mr. Pollard: She gives a reason why she did not ask him.