Nor is the examination unlike many such model displays, both in respect of its eliciting nothing and of its being lengthy, for Mr. Guppy is sensible of his talent, and Mrs. Snagsby feels not only that it gratifies her inquisitive disposition, but that it lifts her husband's establishment higher up in the law. 
His cross examination is both long and fruitless, but Mrs. Snagsby feels that it lifts her husband's establishment higher up in the law. 