“Of course—most earnestly.”
“You see, then, that both Sir Lionel and Miss Plympton are quite out of our reach. If you wish for deliverance you must try something else.”
“What else can I try?”
“Well, the law.”
“The law? Of course, that is just what I wish.”
“It is tedious, remember.”
“Oh, if I can only make a beginning, I can wait. It isn't my life here, or even my imprisonment, that is intolerable so much as my helplessness, and the thought that I am doing nothing, and the impunity with which this wretched Wiggins carries out his purposes. If I could only know that the affair was in the hands of a lawyer, I should feel content.”
“Yes, women have a great faith in lawyers.”
“At any rate, there most be something in the law, although it is often baffled.”
“There ought to be, certainly; but of course you must be prepared to have your suit resisted. Wiggins will also have lawyers, and the ablest ones that he can find.”