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=== Scene III, Act i === | === Scene III, Act i === | ||
''A courtroom in the [[Queen’s Bench Division]]. | ''A courtroom in the [[Queen’s Bench Division]]. {{jerrold}} stands up to address the bench, on which {{cocklecarrot}} sits, wistfully staring at a wooden panel above the gallery, wishing it were a window. | ||
:''' | :'''{{jerrold}}''' ''(for it is he)'': If it pleases your honour, the agreement says the defendant has to sign it. But she hasn’t. | ||
:''' | :'''{{cocklecarrot}}''': Hasn’t what? | ||
:''' | :'''{{jerrold}}''': Signed it. | ||
:''' | :'''{{cocklecarrot}}''': Signed what? | ||
:''' | :'''{{jerrold}}''': The agreement, M’Lud. | ||
:''' | :'''{{cocklecarrot}}''': What agreement? | ||
:''' | :'''{{jerrold}}''' (''frustrated''): The one you are reading, if it, ahh, pleases your honour. | ||
:''' | :'''{{cocklecarrot}}''' ''(waving a piece of paper)'': Oh! ''This'' document? | ||
:''' | :'''{{jerrold}}''': Why, yes sir! That exact one! | ||
:''' | :'''{{cocklecarrot}}''': The very document we are speaking of, that the defendant hasn’t signed? | ||
:''' | :'''{{jerrold}}''': Yes! | ||
:''' | :'''{{cocklecarrot}}''': Do you, ahh — do you see the problem, Sir Jerrold? | ||
:''' | :'''{{jerrold}}''': Permission for the ground to swallow me and my wretched client up, M’Lud | ||
:''' | :'''{{cocklecarrot}}''': Granted, Sir Jerrold. Granted. Shall we say that is lunch? | ||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
* | *{{jerrold}} | ||
* | *{{cocklecarrot}} |