"Has it been proved that he robbed his master?"
"It's a matter of common notoriety."
"Common notoriety is not infrequently a liar. However, that's not the point; I suppose Mr. Nash will do his duty to his client in any case, and he'll come here as soon as he's done it."
"I'd wait for him if I could, but I have to go my round; I'll look in afterwards on the off-chance of finding him; there's something I particularly wish to say to him. I fancy the magistrates, in spite of Mr. Nash, will make short work of Mr. Peters."
After the doctor had gone Miss Harding said to Miss Lindsay,
"Nora, dear, don't you think that Dr. Banyard is inclined to be a little interfering?"
"It has never struck me that he was."
"It has struck me, more than once. But then I think that G.P.s are apt to be interfering; they hope, by having a finger in everybody's pie, to get a plum out of each. Dr. Banyard doesn't like Mr. Nash, does he?"
"He has never told me that he doesn't."
"Has he never breathed words to the same effect?"