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However, that was neither here nor there He pulled down his waistcoat and beca lawyer

"Er--how do you do, Miss Bennett?" he said with a question in his voice, raising his eyebrows in a professional way He modelled this perfore, and wished he had soainst his front teeth "Miss Bennett, I believe?"

Billie drew herself up stiffly

"Yes," she replied "How clever of you to reoodwhich Billie allowed her gaze to travel casually about the roo furtively at her profile He was by now in a thoroughly overwrought condition, and the thu the street outside How beautiful she looked, with that red hair peeping out beneath her hat andHowever!

"Is there anything I can do for you?" he asked in the sort of voice Widgery ery as a small man with bushy eyebrows, a thin face, and a voice like a rusty file

"Well, I really wanted to see Sir Mallaby"

"My father has been called away on important business to Walton Heath Cannot I act as his substitute?"

"Do you know anything about the law?"

"Do I know anything about the law!" echoed Saery on Nisi Prius Evidence when you came in"

"Oh, were you?" said Billie interested "Do you always read on the floor"

"I told you I dropped my pen," said Sam coldly

"And of course you couldn't read without that! Well, as ato do with Nisi--what you said"

"I have not specialised exclusively on Nisi Prius Evidence I know the law in all its branches"

"Then ould you do if a et to sleep?"

"The orchestrion?"

"Yes"

"The orchestrion, eh? Ah! H'm!" said Sam

"You still haven't "

"Oh, if you want to think!"

"Tell me the facts," said Saether in the country, and for some reason or other they have quarrelled, and now Mr Morti he can to make father uncomfortable Yesterday afternoon father wanted to sleep, and Mr Mortimer started his orchestrion just to annoy him"