The usual. Depressed? Ever spoke to you about suicide? Did you have occasion to interrogate the defendant on the morning of the fourth of this month? Corsing grinned and brushed back his floppy shock of greying hair. It was a familiar gesture, almost his trademark. He stopped grinning and tried to look grave and perhaps statesman-like, but there was too much twinkle in his eyes to bring it off. Everything, I said. Anything. Nothing. Mason studied the mans face carefully, then pushed back his chair, picked up the certified check and started for the door. Well, I wanted to talk about what a rotten, no-good son of a bitch he is but Sally steered it around so that I found myself talking about what hed told me. Sallys no dummy and I thought she was trying to help me get him out of my system. Audrey looked at me and smiled, but the smile washalf sardonic, half rueful. She was pumping me, wasnt she, for this guy Quane? They couldnt take Max. I had the kind of friends who couldnt take Max so they sort of drifted away. You and Murfin are about the only people who could take Max, but then you and Murfin arent like my other friends, are you? Answer the question, Judge Sedgwick said. All right. Its me youre getting, Mason pointed out. I may want to use that arm again. He told me you left right after I did. He thought... I mean he didnt say it, but I believe he thought you and I had... you know, gone up there to... Does Derek know that? Dino asked. Areyou now trying to testify, Mason asked, as to the state of mind of this witness? On the contrary, Mason told him, smiling, it depends on what the judge meant by the word inspect. Did you meet any of the other directors through her?.