Then, noticing the silence, she added, "That's all that I _know_ of." Crepitude resolved to end his examination upon this impressive note, and he sat down.

And Alice had Vodrey, K.C., to face.
"You met your husband through a matrimonial agency ?" he asked.
"Yes." "Who first had recourse to the agency ?" "I did." "And what was your object ?" "I wanted to find a husband, of course," she smiled.

"What _do_ people go to matrimonial agencies for ?" "You aren't here to put questions to me," said Vodrey severely.
"Well," she said, "I should have thought you would have known what people went to matrimonial agencies for.

Still, you live and learn." She sighed cheerfully.
"Do you think a matrimonial agency is quite the nicest way of----" "It depends what you mean by 'nice,'" said Alice.
"Womanly." "Yes," said Alice shortly, "I do.

If you're going to stand there and tell me I'm unwomanly, all I have to say is that you're unmanly." "You say you first met your husband outside St George's Hall ?" "Yes." "Never seen him before ?" "No." "How did you recognize him ?" "By his photograph." "Oh, he'd sent you his photograph ?" "Yes." "With a letter ?" "Yes." "In what name was the letter signed ?" "Henry Leek." "Was that before or after the death of the man who was buried in Westminster Abbey ?" "A day or two before." (Sensation in court.) "So that your present husband was calling himself Henry Leek before the death ?" "No, he wasn't.