Starlight was quietly dressed, and looked as if he was there by mistake.

Anybody would have thought so, the way he lounged and stared about, as if he thought there was something very curious and hard to understand about the whole thing.

I was so weak and ill that I couldn't stand up, and after a while the judge told me to sit down, and Starlight too.

Starlight made a most polite bow, and thanked his Honour, as he called him.

Then the jury were called up, and our lawyer began his work.