"I do."
"To the best of your knowledge, are you incompetent?"
"I am not!"
"Object!" shouted Merl's attorney. "Her competence or incompetence is something which she is not in a position to judge. Naturally, she believes herself to be...."
Justice Klyutch, the presiding officer of the court, waved the attorney to silence. "Overruled," he said. "The woman has a right to speak in her own defense. However, the court will take note of the source of the testimony, counselor."
"Now, Mrs. Wisson," Sar's lawyer resumed, "did you hear the testimony of the witnesses called by the petitioner yesterday? I refer to the four men who said they had been your lovers."
"I heard what they said, and it was a pack of lies!"
"Please, Mrs. Wisson," the lawyer cautioned, "just answer the questions I ask you. Don't elaborate.
"Now then—did you ever have affairs with any of these men?"
"I did not!"