"Shall we go to Mr Slow's at once?" she asked.
To this he assented, and at her proposition they agreed to walk to the lawyer's chambers. These were on the north side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, near the Turnstile, and Mr Ball remarked that the distance was again not much above a mile. So they crossed the Strand together, and made their way by narrow streets into Drury Lane, and then under a certain archway into Lincoln's Inn Fields. To Miss Mackenzie, who felt that something ought to be said, the distance and time occupied seemed to be very short.
"Why, this is Lincoln's Inn Fields!" she exclaimed, as she came out upon the west side.
"Yes; this is Lincoln's Inn Fields, and Mr Slow's chambers are over there."
She knew very well where Mr Slow's chambers were situated, but she paused on the pavement, not wishing to go thither quite at once.
"John," she said, "I thought that perhaps we might have talked over all this before we saw Mr Slow."
"Talked over all what?"
"About the money that I want to give to my brother's family. Did not my aunt tell you of it?"
"Yes; she told me that you and she had differed."
"And she told you what about?"