CHAPTER V.
A LADY AND THE LAW Mr.Rae's first care was to see Mr.Dunn.This case was getting rather more trying to Mr.Rae's nerves than he cared to acknowledge.

For a second time he had been humiliated, and humiliation was an experience to which Mr.Rae was not accustomed.

It was in a distinctly wrathful frame of mind that he called upon Mr.Dunn, and the first quarter of an hour of his interview he spent in dilating upon his own folly in having allowed Captain Cameron to accompany him on his visit to Sir Archibald.
"In forty years I never remember having made such an error, Sir.

This was an occasion for diplomacy.

We should have taken time.