“Why did you leave her?”
“I have not said that I left her. Primarily I left Ireland.”
“Assuming that she is alive, your wife will not live with you?”
“Ah, what information have you to that effect?” The judge informed Crozier that he must not ask questions of counsel.
“Why is she not with you here?”
“As you said, I am only picking up a living here, and even the passage by your own second-class steamship line is expensive.”
The judge suppressed a smile. He greatly liked the witness.
“Do you deny that you parted from your wife in anger?”
“When I am asked that question I will try to answer it. Meanwhile, I do not deny what has not been put before me in the usual way.”
Here the judge sternly rebuked the counsel, who ventured upon one last question.