It is a question whether or not their actions are different from those of ordinary men outside a court-room. They have left the restraining influence of an uncomfortable and conspicuous position and have entered again into the attitude of mind of the everyday world. The control of the judge has disappeared. The lawyers are only memories. They have become only plain business men with something definite to do. They do not know how to do it and the discussion begins in a desultory way.
"Well, we ought to give that boy something."
"I don't like the looks of that last witness."
"That lawyer for the defendant was too smart."
"But do you think the driver tried to cut him off?"
"He couldn't have been in bed six weeks."
"No man would stay in bed that long with a sore knee."
"Oh, well, he only meant he was about the house."
"That doctor was a great one. He loved to get off those terms; he must be just graduated from the hospital."
"Did you hear the lawyer say in a case he tried in Brooklyn he had seventeen of those experts?"