"He did; he was very careless."
"Do you know what the prisoner and Mr. Constant spoke about on the night of December 3d?"
"No; I couldn't hear."
"Then how did you know they were quarreling?"
"They were talkin' so loud."
Sir Charles Brown-Harland, Q. C. (sharply): "But I'm talking loudly to you now. Should you say I was quarreling?"
"It takes two to make a quarrel." (Laughter.)
"Was the prisoner the sort of man who, in your opinion, would commit a murder?"
"No, I never should ha' guessed it was him."
"He always struck you as a thorough gentleman?"