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Sandra Wagner-Wright
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Two Coins: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
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Objective Evidence
Rev Hastie may wonders whose side his barrister is on as Mr Gasper questions why in May Hastie said he would cooperate with the woman he now accuses of impropriety and immorality. Hastie vacillates. He always suspected Miss Pigot's poor behavior but he didn't have proof until he received the letters from Mrs Walker and listened to what may have been gossip but Hastie calls 'objective evidence.' Judge Norris interrupts: 'Describe this objective evidence.' Will the evidence be compelling and where will the it take the case?
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Two Coins: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
Mr. Gasper approaches the witness box. “In your memorandum you wrote that you’d had suspicions about Miss Pigot for some time. Yet in May, you wrote you would cooperate with her. What changed?”
“Because all I had in May were suspicions. I couldn’t form a moral judgment that caused me to think cooperation impossible,” I say. The punkah fan falters. The boy must have fallen asleep. The courtroom falls into humid silence.
Justice Norris leans over the dais. “You wrote not only suspected, but long more than suspected.”
“Yes, My Lord,” I say slowly. “The phrase is consistent with my state of mind. I had some objective evidence, but I wasn’t carried away by it.”
“Describe this objective evidence,” Justice Norris says.
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