“Yes, sir.”
“They were obvious exaggerations?”
“Yes, sir.”
“And some were pure inventions? You knew they were wholly untrue?”
“Yes, sir.”
“You and her other friends were well acquainted with her habit of giving way to exaggeration, and even to palpable untruth when under the influence of drink?”
“Yes, sir.”
“The habit was so well known that it was amusing to you? You have often laughed about it among yourselves?”
“Yes, sir.”
“You were known to say yourself on one occasion when she was what you call particularly ‘merry,’ ‘Emma would do for anybody on a quartern of gin’?”