"This evidence of yours and his is not a neat piece of public collusion?"
"No. I wouldn't need collusion. But I have no intention of divorcing Barney. He's fun, and he's a good provider. What more do you want in a husband?"
"I wouldn't know," Robert heard Kevin murmur. Then in his normal voice he asked her to state that the girl she had been talking about was the girl who had given evidence; the girl who was now sitting in court. And so thanked her and sat down.
But Miles Allison made no attempt to cross-examine. And Kevin moved to call his next witness. But the foreman of the jury was before him.
The jury, the foreman said, would like his lordship to know that they had all the evidence they required.
"What was this witness that you were about to call, Mr. Macdermott?" the judge asked.
"He is the owner of the hotel in Copenhagen, my lord. To speak to their having stayed there over the relevant period."
The judge turned inquiringly to the foreman.
The foreman consulted the jury.
"No, my lord; we don't think it is necessary, subject to your lordship's correction, to hear the witness."