"I don't need the fees, fortunately, and I can always pick up enough work to keep me going by attending Sessions.

One thing I can promise you--I certainly shall not sit in my rooms and wait for things to happen.

Mine is a militant spirit and it needs the outlet of action." "Action, yes, but how ?" Wilmore queried.

"You can't be always hanging about the courts, waiting for the chance of defending some poor devil who's been wrongfully accused--there aren't enough of them, for one thing.

On the other hand, you can't walk down Regent Street, brandishing a two-edged sword and hunting for pickpockets." Francis smiled.
"Nothing so flamboyant, I can assure you, Andrew," he replied; "nor shall I play the amateur detective with his mouth open for mysteries.
But listen," he went on earnestly.