The Door
““Where on earth did you get all this?”
“Never mind, Godfrey. It’s our case; that’s all.”
And that was the situation the day before Jim’s trial opened; Laura arriving in the early morning, having left her children for once, and outraged over the whole situation. But not for a moment taking the outcome seriously; coming in from the car, smartly dressed and vocative, followed by that mass of hand luggage which she requires for a twenty-four-hour journey.
“Don’t look at me. I’m a mess, but of cours...e I had to come. Of all the ridiculous and pointless accusations! How are you, Joseph? How d’you do, Clara! Charles told me to see that I had an extra bolt on my door! Isn’t that like him? That cabinet looks well in there.”
Nor did she once consider a possible unfortunate outcome for Jim until the trail began. Then the dignity of the court, the gravity of the counsel for both sides, all the panoply of a trial in which a sovereign state with all its resources is opposed to a single individual in a prisoner’s box, began to impress her.MoreLess
“Never mind, Godfrey. It’s our case; that’s all.”
And that was the situation the day before Jim’s trial opened; Laura arriving in the early morning, having left her children for once, and outraged over the whole situation. But not for a moment taking the outcome seriously; coming in from the car, smartly dressed and vocative, followed by that mass of hand luggage which she requires for a twenty-four-hour journey.
“Don’t look at me. I’m a mess, but of cours...e I had to come. Of all the ridiculous and pointless accusations! How are you, Joseph? How d’you do, Clara! Charles told me to see that I had an extra bolt on my door! Isn’t that like him? That cabinet looks well in there.”
Nor did she once consider a possible unfortunate outcome for Jim until the trail began. Then the dignity of the court, the gravity of the counsel for both sides, all the panoply of a trial in which a sovereign state with all its resources is opposed to a single individual in a prisoner’s box, began to impress her.MoreLess
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