'To find out, I am afraid you must give them your attention. They are like witnesses, stepping out from the darkness of the past and telling the history of it—history in which they moved and had a part, you understand.'
'But the history of the past is not so delightful, is it, that one would care much about hearing the witnesses? What is in that other cabinet, where you are standing?'
'That contains my herbarium.'
'All that? You don't mean that all those drawers are filled with dried flowers?'
'Pretty well filled. There is room for some more.'
'How you must have worked!'
'That was play.'
'Then what do you call work?'
'Well, reading law rather comes into that category.'
'You expect to go on reading law?'