“Upon your own admission that is a name that has no particular significance for you.”
“Nay, you go too fast, my friend. It must be left to the future to place the name of Henry Northcote, but let me confess that in the meantime the bearer of it has not wholly escaped my vigilance.”
“In your capacity as a connoisseur in young men of promise?”
“Precisely.”
“Upon what data have you built, when you have never seen him in open court?”
“My dear fellow, you are as curious as a woman.”
“Every comprehensive mind is partly feminine.”
“No mind can be in any sense feminine. It is a contradiction in terms.”
“Well, well! From what data have you derived the courage to entrust an untried man with the defence in a trial for murder?”
“To be perfectly frank, it was Tobin who found the courage for me.”