"You consider that unhappy children should not have tantrums?" Hunter declared: "Improper question, if I ever heard one." Mann thought: _Sorry, Bud!_ "The Court will rule it admissible in cross-examination. Answer the question, Miss Welsh." "Well, I don't know what she had to be unhappy about, with--" "Miss Welsh, may I have a responsive answer to my question?" "Haven't a notion what the question was all about." "It may be too difficult. I withdraw it. You have known Miss Blake, by sight that is, for eight years. During that time, has your relation with her ever been cordial?" "Naturally I tried to put up with--" "I will repeat the question. During the eight years since 1951, has your relation with Callista Blake ever been cordial?" On the doodle-pad a freshly drawn bull contemplated a tiny spinster--angular long skirt, hat with cherries, defensive umbrella. No fence between her and the beast. Mann drew one, post-and-rail, the top rail fallen. He felt rather proud of the bull: a fine solidity in the foreshortened barrel body; grandeur and melancholy. He sketched in grass and bending daisies to answer the curves of huge elongated scrotum and ponderous sheath. In the right foreground he added a miniature rabbit bundled up in a black gown. Cecil might enjoy the damned thing, on some relaxed evening far in time from the present hour. "I don't--I don't understand the question." "Very well--I withdraw it. Is that wrist watch the one you were wearing on the evening of last August 16th?" "Yes." "Does it have a luminous dial?" "No, I don't want radium and things in my system." "But last August 16th, in the deep twilight after nine o'clock, you could easily read it?" She smirked, recovering. "Lights were on in the living-room." Judge Mann watched Hunter's faint smile appear and fade. "Thank you for remembering that now, Miss Welsh. Is it your custom to look at your watch when anything captures your interest?" "I explained why I did that when I heard the car." "Yes, you were concerned about juvenile delinquency." "I didn't say that!" "Why, I thought I heard a reference to the menace of juvenile delinquents in parked cars." "Oh, that--dare say I was thinking out loud." "I see. Thank you. Had you other reasons to check the time?" "Well, I wondered if the family was expecting C'lista, so I--" "Miss Welsh, in direct testimony you said you wondered if the family was expecting _anyone_, no names mentioned. Then you admitted this deep concern about juvenile delinquents in parked cars. Now we learn the family might have been expecting Callista. All three statements true?" "Oh, what's all the fuss? I knew it was her car." "But preferred not to say so in direct testimony. All right--how did you know it was her car?" "I _explained_ that. Loose license plate, and that buzzy noise." "You did testify to hearing something like a loose license plate. You didn't say Miss Blake's car had one." "Well, it did, and I heard it."