"And you still get on well? Seriously speaking now. Frank."
"First-rate," answered Frank. "This day's work will be the best lift for me, though, unless I am mistaken. I had two fresh briefs put into my hands as I sat down," he added, going off in a laugh. "See if I make this year less than a thousand!"
"And the next thing, I suppose, you will be thinking of getting married?"
The bold barrister actually blushed. "What nonsense, mother! Marry, and lose my fellowship!"
"Frank, it is so! I see it in your face. You must tell me who it is."
"Well, as yet it is no one. I must wait until my eloquence, as they called it to-day in court, is a more assured fact with the public, and then I may speak out to the judge. She means waiting for me, though, so it is all right."
"Tell me, Frank," repeated Jane; "who is 'she'?"
"Maria Leader."
Jane looked at him doubtingly. "Not Sir William's daughter?"
"His second daughter."