I remember now that Doctor Thorndyke unravelled that case with most remarkable ingenuity." "I daresay he would be very much interested to hear about your case," I suggested.
"I daresay he would," was the reply; "but one can't take up a professional man's time for nothing, and I couldn't afford to pay him.
And that reminds me that I'm taking up your time by gossiping about my purely personal affairs." "My morning round is finished," said I, "and, moreover, your personal affairs are highly interesting.

I suppose I mustn't ask what is the nature of the legal entanglement ?" "Not unless you are prepared to stay here for the rest of the day and go home a raving lunatic.

But I'll tell you this much: the trouble is about my poor brother's will.

In the first place, it can't be administered because there is no sufficient evidence that my brother is dead; and in the second place, if it could, all the property would go to people who were never intended to benefit.

The will itself is the most diabolically exasperating document that was ever produced by the perverted ingenuity of a wrong-headed man.