Just put in what 'e liked in 'is paper, 'e did--not what I said at all!" At this there was some laughter, quickly suppressed.
"In future," said the coroner severely, addressing the juryman, who had now sat down again, "you must ask any question you wish to ask through your foreman, and please wait till I have concluded my examination of the witness." But this interruption, this--this accusation, had utterly upset the witness.

She began contradicting herself hopelessly.

The man she had seen hurrying by in the semi-darkness below was tall--no, he was short.

He was thin--no, he was a stoutish young man.

And as to whether he was carrying anything, there was quite an acrimonious discussion.
Most positively, most confidently, the witness declared that she had seen a newspaper parcel under his arm; it had bulged out at the back -- so she declared.