The two talked together for a while; no one heard what they said, but presently they walked off together.

No one seemed to know in which direction.
"Francis Smethurst was rousing himself from his apathy; he whispered to his lawyer, who nodded with a bland smile of encouragement.

The employes of the Hotel Cecil gave evidence as to the arrival of Mr.Smethurst at about 9.30 p.m.on Wednesday, December the 10th, in a cab, with a quantity of luggage; and this closed the case for the prosecution.
"Everybody in that court already _saw_ Smethurst mounting the gallows.
It was uninterested curiosity which caused the elegant audience to wait and hear what Sir Arthur Inglewood had to say.

He, of course, is the most fashionable man in the law at the present moment.

His lolling attitudes, his drawling speech, are quite the rage, and imitated by the gilded youth of society.
"Even at this moment, when the Siberian millionaire's neck literally and metaphorically hung in the balance, an expectant titter went round the fair spectators as Sir Arthur stretched out his long loose limbs and lounged across the table.