Mr. White Lush: Answer my question. You keep a lodging-house?
Witness: I do, sir.
Mr. White Lush: Do you remember the night of the 9th of last month?
Witness: I’ve got reason to.
Mr. White Lush: What reason?
Witness: Two of my lodgers run away without paying their rent.
Mr. White Lush: That circumstance fixes the night in your mind?
Witness: It’d fix it in yours if you kep’ a lodging-house. (Laughter.)
Mr. White Lush: No doubt. There were other circumstances, independent of the running away of your lodgers, which serve to fix that night in your mind?