"Yes."
"Fifty?"
"Yes, I will say so."
"Seventy?"
"Yes."
"Eighty?"
"Yes," responded the young lady with a countenance absolutely devoid of expression.
"A hundred?" inquired the lawyer with a thrill of eager triumph in his voice.
There was a significant hush in the court-room. Then the witness, with a patient smile and a slight lifting of her pretty eyebrows, remarked quietly:
"Mr. Wellman, don't you think we have carried our little joke far enough?"