As a solicitor he was "strong on the Chancery side" and had gained some famous judgments for notorious litigants--men who had loved the law so well that their souls might well have been found--knowing no higher heaven--in the office where the records of their forgotten lawsuits were buried.

And in death, as in life, they would have been glad to confide their affairs to the man whose lot it had been to add "Deceased" to so many of the names on the black steel deed-boxes which lined the shelves.
Mr.Brimsdown lived for the law.

As a family lawyer he was the soul of discretion, an excellent fighter, wary and reticent, deep as the grave, but far safer.

The grave sometimes opens and divulges a ghastly secret from its narrow depths.

There was no chance of getting anything out of Mr.
Brimsdown, dead or alive.