It was Kitty Tynan.

She had never allowed herself to think of that, but even if she had, what difference could it make whether he was married or single, since he was out of her star?
"Are you not married now ?" "I do not know." "You mean you do not know if you have been divorced ?" "No." "You mean your wife is dead ?" "No." "What do you mean?
That you do not know whether your wife is living or dead ?" "Quite so." "Have you heard from her since you saw her last ?" "I had one letter." Kitty Tynan thought of the unopened letter in a woman's handwriting in the green baize desk in her mother's house.
"No more ?" "No more." "Are we to understand that you do not know whether your wife is living or dead ?" "I have no information that she is dead." "Why did you leave her ?" "I have not said that I left her.

Primarily I left Ireland." "Assuming that she is alive, your wife will not live with you ?" "Ah, what information have you to that effect ?" The judge informed Crozier that he must not ask questions of counsel.
"Why is she not with you here ?" "As you said, I am only picking up a living here, and even the passage by your own second-class steamship line is expensive." The judge suppressed a smile.

He greatly liked the witness.
"Do you deny that you parted from your wife in anger ?" "When I am asked that question I will try to answer it.

Meanwhile, I do not deny what has not been put before me in the usual way." Here the judge sternly rebuked the counsel, who ventured upon one last question.
"Have you any children ?" "None." "Has your brother, who inherited, any children ?" "None that I know of." "Are you the heir-presumptive to the baronetcy ?" "I am." "Yet your wife will not live with you ?" "Call Mrs.Crozier as a witness and see.