Mr. Walters: He said, “when it comes to be real”?
Witness: “It seems unreal for the first time,” my poppett.
Mr. Walters: But when a man says “a real thing,” he means a real thing?
Mr. Chesterton: My Lord!
Judge: There is some element of paradox involved here. I cannot consent to allow the witness to be attacked merely because a criminal says that that which seemed real before it happened appeared unreal when it happened, because I suppose most of us in this room have committed crimes at some time or other, and that is a possible state of affairs.
Mr. Walters: I will not ask any more questions, my Lord.
Mr. Chesterton (re-examining): When you say that you imagined the prisoner was rich as compared with your other clients—they would be Chinamen and sailors and Lascars?
Witness: They was very poor, deary.
Mr. Chesterton: He was a different class of man?
Witness: He was, my poppett.