PRESIDENT. I will have you removed. Stand up.
TUPIN. All right. It’ll let me stretch my legs a bit.
PRESIDENT. Your profession?
TUPIN. Electrician.
PRESIDENT. You were once. It’s a long time since you worked regularly.
TUPIN. There’s no work to be had.
PRESIDENT. Because you look for it at the wineshop. The police give the worst account of you.
TUPIN. I am not surprised they don’t like me: I never liked them. [Laughter].
PRESIDENT. Silence there: or I shall have the court cleared. [To Tupin] The name of your wife has been found among the papers of the defendant Thomas. Catherine Tupin, maiden name Bidois. Where is Catherine Tupin? Stand up. Very well, sit down again. [To Tupin] You tried to conceal your wife from the police.
TUPIN. I didn’t think they were good company for her.