‘I never saw a more insolent fellow!’ said Lord Rotherwood.
‘That Yokes, you mean,’ said Miss Mohun. ‘I declare I think he is worse than Flinders!’
‘That’s like you women, Jenny,’ returned the colonel; ‘you can’t understand that a man’s business is to get off his client!’
‘When he gave him up as an honest man altogether!’ cried Lady Merrifield.
‘And cast such imputations!’ exclaimed Aunt Jane. ‘I saw what the wretch was driving at all the time of the cross-examination; and if I’d been the judge, would not I have stopped him?’
‘There you go. Lily and Jenny!’ said the colonel, ‘and Rotherwood just as bad! Why, Maurice would have had to take just the same line if he had been for the defence.’
‘He would not have done it in such a blackguard fashion though,’ said Lord Rotherwood.
‘I saw what his defence would be,’ said Mr. Mohun, briefly.
‘There!’ said Colonel Mohun, with a boyish pleasure in confuting his sisters; but they were not subdued.
‘Now Maurice,’ cried Jane, ‘when that man was known to be utterly dishonourable and good for nothing, was it fair—was it not contrary to all common sense—to try to cast the imputation between those two poor girls? So the judge and jury felt it, I am happy to say! but I call it abominable to have thrown out the mere suggestion—’