"You were quite right to go to Sir Peregrine."
"I am so glad you are not angry with me as to that."
"And did he say anything—anything particular?"
"He promised that he would not desert me, should there be any new difficulty."
"That is well. It is always good to have the countenance of such a neighbour as he is."
"And the advice of such a friend as you are." And she again put out her hand to him.
"Well; yes. It is my trade, you know, to give advice," and he smiled as he took it.
"How should I live through such troubles without you?"
"We lawyers are very much abused now-a-days," said Mr. Furnival, thinking of what was going on down at Birmingham at that very moment; "but I hardly know how the world would get on without us."
"Ah! but all lawyers are not like you."