'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
A Lawyer calling you an " absurd person " is pretty mild. I have been accused of being a lying ,conniving ,unscrupulous ,fatherless son whose mother did not know what morals were. He did not put it in quite those terms, being a person of some education, but both the Judge and I got the gist of it. After his client was sent down he invited me to lunch. Saying I was hesitant to accept after the roasting I had recieved in the witness box he replied in his best Rumpole of The Bailey voice " Come, come my boy, both you and I know its only a game. Bye the way the meal is on my company". We remained friends until his death.