The Trial of Callista Blake

by Edgar Pangborn

"It didn't happen, that's all. I never touched her."

"No? You didn't, a few minutes later, strike her across the face with the flat of your hand?"

"Objection!"

"Overruled."

"I certainly did not. The whole thing is imaginary."

"Did Callista Blake, while you had hold of her, tell you that she was ill, that she had had a miscarriage the night before?"

"Objection!"

"Overruled." So Terry sticks his own neck way out, his own feelings involved, his judgment slipping, and where does that take us?

"Exception."