Instead of proceeding to such violence I am merely resorting to a very harmless guile in getting round the absurd restrictions imposed by the benchers of the Inns of Court, namely that all who claim a call to the Bar should not be _accountants_, _actuaries_, _clergymen_ or _women_.

I am going to give up the accountancy business--or rather, the law has never allowed either Honoria or me to become chartered accountants, so there is nothing to give up.

To avoid any misapprehension she is going to change the title on our note paper and brass plate to 'General Inquiry Agents.' That will be sufficiently non-committal.
Well then, as to sex disqualification, a few weeks hence I shall become David Vavasour Williams, and I presume he was a male?
You don't have to pass a medical examination for the Bar, do you ?" _Praed_: "Really, Vivie, you are _unnecessarily_ coarse..." _Vivie_: "I don't care if I am, poor outlaw that I am! Every avenue to an honest and ambitious career seems closed to me, either because I am a woman or--in women's careers--the few that there are--because I am Kate Warren's daughter.

_I_ am not to blame for my mother's misdeeds, yet I am being punished for them.

That beast of a friend of yours--that filthy swine, George Crofts--set it about after I refused to marry him that I was 'Mrs.Warren's Daughter,' and the few nice people I knew from Cambridge days dropped me, all except Honoria and her mother." _Praed_: "Well, _I_ haven't dropped you.