Winthrop was silent, going on with his 'answer.'
"How much do you expect you'll get from them?"
"Can't tell yet. I somewhat expect to recover a very large sum."
"Winthrop — I wish I was a lawyer —" Rufus said presently with a sigh.
"Why?" said his brother calmly.
"I should — or at least I might — be doing something."
"Then you think all the work of the world rests upon the shoulders of lawyers? I knew they had a good deal to do, but not so much as that."
"I don't see anything for me to do," Rufus said despondingly.
Rufus got off his couch and began gloomily to walk up and down.
"How easily those who are doing well themselves can bear the ill haps of their friends!" he said.