WITNESS (hesitating): Well, I might have had a glass.
CALTON: So you might; you might have had several.
WITNESS (sulkily): Well, there's no law against a cove feeling thirsty.
CALTON: Certainly not; and I suppose you took advantage of the absence of such a law.
WITNESS (defiantly): Yes, I did.
CALTON: And you were elevated?
WITNESS: Yes; on my cab.—(Laughter.)
CALTON (severely): You are here to give evidence, sir, not to make jokes, however clever they may be. Were you, or were you not, slightly the worse for drink?
WITNESS: I might have been.
CALTON: So you were in such a condition that you did not observe very closely the man who hailed you?