Smith. "Why, we used to play a game of cards, and have a glass of gin-and-water, and smoke a pipe perhaps; and then they said, 'It is late—you had better stop all night;' and I did. There was no particular reason why I did not go home that I know of."
Attorney-General. "Did that go on for three or four years?"
Smith. "Yes; and I sometimes used to stop there when there was nobody there at all—when they were all away from home, the mother and all."
Attorney-General. "And you have slept there when the sons were not there and the mother was?"
Smith. "Yes."
Attorney-General. "How often did that happen?"
Smith. "Sometimes for two or three nights a week, for some months at a time, and then perhaps I would not go near the house for a month."
Attorney-General. "What did you stop for on those nights when the sons were not there; there was no one to smoke and drink with then, and you might have gone home, might you not?"
Smith. "Yes; but I did not."
Attorney-General. "Do you mean to say, on your oath, that there was nothing but a proper intimacy between you and Mrs. Palmer?"