"Ah! who ever caught a trout at the first cast? What you need is experience."
"What I want is help."
"And so you have appealed to me? You wish me to go to this woman and tell her that her marriage was a fraud?"
"I do."
"There have been pleasanter tasks."
"Will you do it, or will you not?"
"Suppose she will not believe me?"
"You must compel her."
"Young man, have you no compunctions about this business?" said the judge, leaning forward and looking earnestly into the blue eyes.
"Compunctions?" said David, in a dry echo of the question.