"You think so?" he asked.
Something cynical in the tone caught Hugh Ritson's ear.
"It was a bad change, wasn't it?" added the lawyer; "this one is likely to be a deal more troublesome."
Hugh Ritson went on with his dressing in silence.
"You see, by the interchange your positions were reversed," continued the lawyer.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, not to put too fine a point on it, the other was in your hands, while you are in the hands of this one."
Hugh Ritson's foot fell heavily at that instant, but he merely said, with suppressed quietness:
"There was this one's crime."
"Was—precisely," said Mr. Bonnithorne.