The Court had long sessions.

The judges who came from abroad were anxious to get their work done and go back to their homes.

So the Courts sat from half past eight or nine o'clock in the morning until six in the afternoon with an intermission of an hour, or an hour and a quarter, for dinner.

The parties to the suits came from all over Worcester County.

Frequently it was impossible to see the witnesses until the trial came on, or just before.
So the lawyer had to spend his evenings and often far into the night in seeing witnesses and making other preparations for the next day.