Bar. 3. A very sudden and very alarming attack.

And now you know to the full as much as I,

Or, as I fancy, any lawyer here.

Bar. 2. Do you know anything of his early life?

Bar. 1. My father knew him at college: a reading man,

The quietest of the quiet, shy and timid.

And college honours past,

No one believed he ever would do anything.

Bar. 2. He was a moral sort of prig, I’ve heard,

Till he was twenty-five; and even then