“You didn’t come for anything else?”
“No, except that I did want to talk with you. We can do that while we eat.”
“I’d rather you would ask me any questions before we go out. State secrets have been known to leak out from restaurant tables.”
“Tell me where this Adoniah Phillips lives.”
“Whew! You don’t pick the easy ones, do you? You certainly go right after what you want, Bets. But why do you ask?”
“Because I want to know.”
“You’ll have to think up a better reason than that.”
“If he is one of your clients, why don’t you make him pay that interest?”
“Lawyers may advise, but they can’t drive unless they hold the reins of litigation.”
“You are just as exasperating as all lawyers,” she said with a show of impatience. “Do you know that your client has fallen heir to a very large fortune? And do you know 317 that he could pay the principal as well as the interest?”