She came over and the cross-examination was interrupted. But in a few minutes she had settled down to it again.
‘Well, now—the first?’ said she.
‘Oh, I can’t, Maude—don’t.’
‘Come, sir—her name?’
‘No, no, Maude, that is going a little too far. Even to you, I should never mention another woman’s name.’
‘Who was she, then?’
‘Please don’t let us go into details. It is perfectly horrible. Let me tell things in my own way.’
She made a little grimace.
‘You are wriggling, sir. But I won’t be hard upon you. Tell it your own way.’
‘Well, in a word, Maude, I was always in love with some one.’