The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 9 (December 1, 1937.)
The Recluse
The Recluse.
“Was the plaintiff,” asked the lawyer, cross-examining, “in the habit of talking to himself when alone?”
“I don't know,” replied the witness.
“Come, come. You don't know, and yet you pretend that you were intimately acquainted with him?”
“The fact is,” said the witness, dryly, “I never happened to be with him when he was alone.”