COKESON. [Looking at him as if to encourage him to complete the sentence] A leetle more, sir.
FROME. Or did she not?
COKESON. She did. I shouldn't like you to have led me to the answer.
FROME. [With an irritated smile] Will you tell the jury what it was?
COKESON. "It's a matter of life and death."
FOREMAN OF THE JURY. Do you mean the woman said that?
COKESON. [Nodding] It's not the sort of thing you like to have said to you.
FROME. [A little impatiently] Did Falder come in while she was there? [COKESON nods] And she saw him, and went away?
COKESON. Ah! there I can't follow you. I didn't see her go.
FROME. Well, is she there now?