But he will get his knighthood and a pension, I believe," she said, turning to Ralph, "only it is not England." "No," Mrs.Cosham confirmed her, "it is not England.

In those days we thought an Indian Judgeship about equal to a county-court judgeship at home.

His Honor--a pretty title, but still, not at the top of the tree.
However," she sighed, "if you have a wife and seven children, and people nowadays very quickly forget your father's name--well, you have to take what you can get," she concluded.
"And I fancy," Mrs.Milvain resumed, lowering her voice rather confidentially, "that John would have done more if it hadn't been for his wife, your Aunt Emily.

She was a very good woman, devoted to him, of course, but she was not ambitious for him, and if a wife isn't ambitious for her husband, especially in a profession like the law, clients soon get to know of it.

In our young days, Mr.Denham, we used to say that we knew which of our friends would become judges, by looking at the girls they married.