“The evidence of people’s senses. Every one has seen you.”
“I cannot deal with ‘every one,’ it is too indefinite. You say I went to some one’s house,—not that it would matter the least if I did,—but who saw me?”
“I did.”
“You did! I never was in the house in my life.”
“Try to remember. I have seen you go in and also seen you come out of it.”
“If it were not so stupid, one might almost get angry. I repeat that I have never been in the house, nor spoken to the owner.”
“And I, having seen with my own eyes, maintain that you have.”
“You have mistaken some one else for me, or drawn on your imagination, for what you say is absolutely untrue. But, as you seem to have constructed a fantastic story on that insecure foundation, I have a good mind to charge you with defaming me.”
“By all means, and I will go into court and say what I know and you know to be true.”
Now, what can you do with a person like that? If I were the judge, trying my own cause and knowing there is not a semblance of a particle of truth in this absurd tale, I believe that if a witness appeared and gave evidence against me with this sublime assurance, I would decide the case against myself.