Do you remember that?"
"I--I--I believe I do. But I didn't see what he wrote."
"You didn't see what he wrote. Exhibit A shows that he wrote '_Mr.
and Mrs. James Dysart_.' You heard the handwriting experts testify
that the writing was Dyckman's. But you did not see the writing. Did
you not, however, hear the waiter speak of you as the defendant's
wife?"
"Well--I may have heard him."
"You didn't tell him that you were not the defendant's wife?"
"I didn't speak to the waiter at all. It was a very embarrassing
situation."
"It must have been. So you did not deny that you were the defendant's
wife?"
"You see, it was like this. When Mr. Dyckman asked me to try his
new car--"
"You did not deny that you were the defendant's wife?"
"I hadn't the faintest idea that we could have gone so far--"
"Answer the question!"
"But I'm coming to that--"
The judge: "Witness will answer question."
"But, your Honor, can't I explain? Has he a right to ask these
horrible things in that horrible way?"
The lawyer: "We are trying to get at the horrible truth. But if you
prefer not to answer I will not press the point. The waiter showed
you to the parlor, saying that the rest of the hotel was occupied?"
"Yes."
"He left you there together, you and the defendant?"
"Well, he went away, but--"
"And left you together. He so testified. He also testified that he
found you together the next morning. Is that true?"
"Oh, that's outrageous.
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