As Cecilia stood up the reporters actually left their places and very quietly glided up to seats near the trembling girl.
"Would they make a scandal of it?" she was thinking. "That lawyer's remark about Jack Kimball?"
"Your name?" asked the judge.
She replied in a steady voice.
"And your occupation?"
Cecilia hesitated. She was not yet ready to make public the ambition she had so earnestly worked for.
"A student," she replied finally.
"Of what?" asked Rob Roland.
"Young man," said the judge sternly, "I am hearing this case, and any further discourtesy from you will be considered as contempt."
The youth smiled ironically. He was already accustomed to such usage, and did not mind it in the least if only he could gain his point, but this time he had failed.