"Yes, sir. That's true."
"She was rich?"
"Yes, sir."
"Beautiful?"
"I believe it is admitted by all that she is," he said to the court in general without requiring or anticipating a reply from Clyde, yet the latter, so thoroughly drilled had he been, now replied: "Yes, sir."
"Had you two—yourself and Miss Alden, I mean—at that time when you first met Miss X already established that illicit relationship referred to?"
"Yes, sir."
"Well, now, in view of all that—but no, one moment, there is something else I want to ask you first—now, let me see—at the time that you first met this Miss X you were still in love with Roberta Alden, were you—or were you not?"
"I was still in love with her—yes, sir."
"You had not, up to that time at least, in any way become weary of her? Or had you?"