"We'll give you a town to live in.
We'll give you professional work to do." "So you'll build me a town, in order to get me work?
That's very nice of you, indeed." "Now, there you go with your infernal priggishness," protested Ellsworth, testily.

"Have we asked you to do anything but straight business ?" "Exactly," said Barkley.
They were playing now with Dan Anderson's heartstrings, but his face did not show it.

They were putting him in the balance against Heart's Desire, but his speech offered no evidence of it.

They were making Constance Ellsworth the price of Heart's Desire, but Dan Anderson did not divulge it, as he sat and looked at them.
"Gentlemen," said he, at length, "I am a lawyer, the best one in Heart's Desire.

The law here is complex in practice.