Mother is supportive. When Janine finishes filling out the paperwork, she calls the clerk back to the counter. Janine now must enter the courtroom where Judge John A. Markey is presiding over the normal court cases. Janine takes a seat in a remote corner of the crowded courtroom, and hangs her head. Up front Judge Markey is going about the daily business of arraigning people arrested the night before or continuing cases of other criminal defendants.
Lawyers filter in and out of the courtroom.
Some approach where the vistors are sitting to call their clients back out to the corridor. Janine wonders out loud if it's always this busy. Those in the seats near her are chattering softly to people next to them. Janine keeps glancing at the clock. Four minutes later, her name and that of her fiance are called.