Any man is my client, or any woman, who can come and pay me for business that is fit for me to do." "Why isn't this fit to be done?
If the man's been damaged, why shouldn't he be paid ?" "He's had money offered him." "If he thinks it ain't enough, who's to say that it is,--unless a jury ?" said Mrs.Masters, becoming quite eloquent.

"And how's a poor man to get a jury to say that, unless he comes to a lawyer?
Of course, if you won't have it, he'll go to Bearside.

Bearside won't turn him away." Bearside was another attorney, an interloper of about ten years' standing, whose name was odious to Mr.Masters.
"You don't know anything about it, my dear," said he, aroused at last to anger.
"I know you're letting anybody who likes take the bread out of the children's mouths." The children, so called, were sitting round the table and could not but take an interest in the matter.

The eldest was that Mary Masters, the daughter of the former wife, whom Lady Ushant had befriended, a tall girl, with dark brown hair, so dark as almost to be black, and large, soft, thoughtful grey eyes.

We shall have much to say of Mary Masters, and can hardly stop to give an adequate description of her here.