Ought I to go down?
Did he wish for me?
I wonder--" His distress as he paced the room was more apparent than ever.

Again, his clients would have been astonished if they had witnessed it.

In their opinion he was hard as nails and a stranger to the softer feelings of the heart.

They would as soon thought of attributing sentiment to one of the japanned deed-boxes.

But they would have accepted the surprising revelation with well-bred English tolerance for eccentricity, not allowing it to affect their judgment that Mr.Brimsdown was one of the soundest and safest lawyers in England.
His agitation arose from the death of Robert Turold--his client.