"He did."
"With your approval, of course?"
"Yes."
"And Mrs. Westbrook's?"
"Certainly," returned the witness, with a mild expression of astonishment.
"But Doctor Westbrook rather emphatically opposed it, did he not?"
The General suddenly glared, and Mr. Merkel stirred uneasily.
"Pardon me," the latter added with a propitiatory tone, "er-ah—General; I shouldn't ask the question were it not necessary." The witness then coldly replied:
"Doctor Westbrook saw fit to obtrude himself into my private affairs in a manner that would have had no effect one way or another on the result."
"You mean?" Mr. Merkel innocently asked.