A certain person I imagine must have heard that _Fraser and Warren_ had been wound up and couldn't bear the thought of your being hard up in consequence ...

doesn't know you got a share of the purchase-money..." * * * * * David decided at any rate for the present to accept the addition to his capital--you can perhaps push principle _too_ far; or, once you plunge into affairs, you cease to be quite so high-souled.

At any rate nothing in David's middle-class mind was so horrible as penury and the impotence that comes with it.

How many months or years would lie ahead of him before fees could be gained and a professional income be earned?
Besides he wanted to take Bertie Adams into his service as a Clerk.

A barrister must have a clerk, and David in his peculiar circumstances could only engage one acquainted more or less with his secret.
So Bertie Adams fulfilled the ambition he had cherished for three years--he felt all along it was coming true.