BRIGNAC [coming forward to the bar] Here, President.
PRESIDENT. What is your question, Maître Verdier?
COUNSEL. M. Brignac has heard all that has just been said?
BRIGNAC. Yes.
COUNSEL. Then I beg M. Brignac to review all the factors in his memory. I make a supreme appeal to his conscience, and I beg you, President, to put this question to M. Brignac: does M. Brignac not recognize himself as morally responsible for the crime imputed to Madame Lucie Jarras, his divorced wife?
PRESIDENT. I shall not put the question. Is that all?
COUNSEL. For the moment, yes.
PRESIDENT [to Brignac] You may return to your place, Deputy. But since the defence, with an assumption of excessive liberty, appears desirous of incriminating you, the Court may, perhaps, be permitted to express to you here the high esteem in which it personally holds you. [He half rises from his chair, bowing to Brignac].
BRIGNAC. I thank you, President. [He goes back to his place].