The judge interposed again with the remark, not very severe in tone, that the witness was not in the box to ask questions, but to answer them. At the same time he must remind counsel that the examination must discontinue unless something more relevant immediately appeared in the evidence.
There was silence again for a moment, and even Crozier himself seemed to steel himself for a question he felt was coming.
“Are you married or single?” asked Burlingame, and he did not need to raise his voice to summon the interest of the court.
“I was married.”
One person in the audience nearly cried out. It was Kitty Tynan. She had never allowed herself to think of that, but even if she had, what difference could it make whether he was married or single, since he was out of her star?
“Are you not married now?”
“I do not know.”
“You mean you do not know if you have been divorced?”
“No.”
“You mean your wife is dead?”