The Benefit of the Doubt; a Comedy in Three Acts

by Arthur Wing Pinero

Mrs. Cloys.

I thought you never——!

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

It is somebody’s duty to overlook the reports of this case. I see that one vile placard announces, “Lively cross-examination of Mrs. Fraser.”

Mrs. Cloys.

Lively!

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

[Producing a newspaper.] Here’s a rag which dares to give illustrations—“Sketches in Court.”

Mrs. Cloys.

Have you contrived to get among them?