Storm in a Teacup Page #7

I don't care if I win the case or lose it!

I've lost everything over this.

I've lost my job, I've lost

my future, I've lost...

Oh, take them away.

Mr. Burdon, you can't behave like this!

And you can't take things like that!

My society is going to defend you,

whether you like it or not!

Come along, sir.

It's downright unacceptable, so it is...

To see you gazing there at nothing.

As if you were Columbus taking

his first look at America...

And the dear hearth of you

broken at the fight of this.

Come on, man dear!

Don't be refusing the help of others

from the sorrows on you!

And stand up for yourself

with all your forces...

The way you stand up for others.

The widows and the orphans,

the poor and the helpless.

Listen.

I've caused enough trouble.

I'm through.

I don't care what they do,

I don't want to win the case.

I don't want to do anymore

to hurt Miss. Victoria.

Ah, it's the great boy you are, Mr. Burdon.

And it's a great gift for

right that you have.

Did I tell you, I had the article framed?

It's up on the wall,

between His Holiness...

And the colour enlargement

of poor Hegarty that was?

It's a cruelty, that's what it is.

It makes me boil over!

Such a sweet little doggie, my dear.

Yes!

I know what I'd do with

that Provost of Baikie.

- Doing a thing like that to a dog!

- Bad show!

And shall poor Patsy die...

The twenty million schoolchildren

shall learn to read and fight.

I mean it's hardly

playing the game, what?

- It's not cricket!

- No.

The Patsy case.

It is understood that reports of the

resignation of Provost William Gow...

Were officially denied

in Baikie today.

The Court!

Bring him up.

Bring up the penal Frank Burdon.

Bring up Frank Burdon.

I brought myself up!

They might have given me some red finery

and a choir in the orchestra.

This is a court of law, there is

no orchestra whatever.

- Then there should be.

- You be quiet!

Inasmuch as you've acted to publish a

statement designed out carefully...

To exercise an improper influence

on the voters in parliamentary election...

Under the Corruption and Illegal

Practices' Act of 1895.

When?

1895!

But I wasn't born then!

- Have you understood the charge?

- I tried to.

Do you want it read again?

No, thank you.

Do you plead guilty or not guilty?

Does it matter?

The defendant pleads not guilty, my lord.

You know that.

- We may proceed?

- Why not?

Thank you.

Call Robert Andrews.

Robert Andrews!

Robert Andrews!

Robert Andrews!

- Do brisk up, Willie.

- I wish I could see Victoria.

Oh her, she won't turn up anyway.

Willie...

When you've won your case,

Horace may call off the divorce.

Sometimes I think you're without

one moral principle!

And nothing but the truth?

And nothing but the truth.

- You're Robert Andrews?

- I am!

You are a composer, working

for the Baikie Advertiser?

I am!

Then you set up in print the

matter appearing in the paper?

I do!

On the night in question, were you given by

the penal a last minute article to set up?

I was!

Was the penal the author of the article?

I was!

Silence!

How dare you!

I'm trying to save time.

When I defend a case, I expect my client

to behave himself.

I didn't ask you to, I can defend myself.

Mr. Burdon, there are 3000 pounds put

forward for your defence by the FFFFF...

You all know where that's going to.

Really!

Leave him to me, Mr. Menzies.

Mr. Burdon, you must not

interrupt the hearing.

Go on.

How did you know the penal

was the author of the article?

It was his English and the writing.

What do you mean by that?

Read it and you'll understand.

I understand you had difficulties

in deciphering the article.

It was practically a

physical impossibility.

You're quite sure you sent the print

What the penal wrote?

Of course he did!

- Keep quiet!

- I corrected the proof myself!

Hold your tongue!

Well, don't suggest I didn't

write what I did write.

Shhh.

You really must speak to

your client, Mr. Menzies.

My lord, you told me to leave him to you.

Don't be impertinent.

Silence!

The next person to laugh, will be

turned out of this court.

Yes, sir.

Vickie!

Why...

I thought you weren't coming.

What else could I do?

I've missed you, Vickie.

It was decent of you to have

kept away from... Him.

You are mistaking him Vickie.

He's just a self seeking little rattler.

He is nothing of the kind.

He didn't do anything

you didn't goad him to.

And you're bringing this case

simply to satisfy your own pride.

I see!

So you're still taken

in with the fellow.

Well, it'll interest you to know

where I've got him this time.

Father!

- You're Margaret Twine?

- Sure!

Please... Just answer yes or no.

OK.

You're employed as a parlour

maid by Provost Gow?

Says you!

What is the meaning of

this expression "says you"?

Well...

My lord...

It's as slang phrase of American origin

which has gained regrettable currency...

In the language of our people through

the insidious agency of the city mob.

And it will, I'm given to understand,

employed to indicate...

A state of dubiety in the mind

of the speaker, as to the...

Veracity or credibility of

a statement made to him.

Oh, yeah?

Honoria Hegarty!

I'm here right now me Sarge!

Don't be raising the roof!

The court's waiting. Where

on earth have you been?

I had to get my Patsy at the nursing home.

The publicity got on the nerves of him

and he had to have a rest cure.

You're lucky not to get six months

for contempt of Court.

Well, I don't know about the six months...

But I got the contempt all right!

- And I will tell the truth...

- Tell the truth.

- The whole truth...

- The whole truth.

- And nothing but the truth.

- Nothing but the truth.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

Your name, I believe, is Honoria Gakin.

Or Hegarty.

Aw, make up your mind

man, which it is Hegarty, it is.

Now, on the evening under discussion,

you paid a visit to Mr. Gow's house.

- Clydeview, McCullan Row.

- I did enough!

You've cause to remember that evening.

Cause of it!

And he pushing me back, hitting every step!

And I got a great large bruise

the colour of a rainbow in the sky.

It's not faded away yet,

look if you could only see...

Yes, but never mind about that.

Oh, it's easy for you to talk...

- Couldn't I get in, please?

- What's your involvement in the case?

- Yes, but I...

- Nay, nay...

You'll have to wait until you're called.

And now...

We've come to the evening of the...

The canine demonstration at Mr.

Gow's house.

Now, tell me.

On that day, did the accused express

animosity against Provost?

Sure all the animals, and the lions better

than lambs, are against the Provost.

Thank you, that will do.

Mr. Menzies, do you wish

to question the witness?

Certainly not, my lord.

Indeed I've been waiting with all the patience I can

muster to hear why the Crown has called this rather...

Irrelevant lady.

Oh! Patsy!

Did you hear what he called me?

- Yes, she must stand down.

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