He was evidently deeply offended at the subordinate part that he had been compelled to play in the case, and was at no great pains to conceal the fact.
"I am informed," said he, in a frosty tone, when I had explained my mission, "that Mrs.Hornby and Miss Gibson are to meet you here.

The arrangement is none of my making; none of the arrangements in this case are of my making.

I have been treated throughout with a lack of ceremony and confidence that is positively scandalous.

Even now, I--the solicitor for the defence--am completely in the dark as to what defence is contemplated, though I fully expect to be involved in some ridiculous fiasco.

I only trust that I may never again be associated with any of your hybrid practitioners.