"I will do anything--anything in my power--to induce you to change your mind.

I never lost hope until--I heard you had refused to defend him.
Surely--surely--there is some means of persuading you left!" For the first time his smile was openly cynical.
"Don't offer me money, please!" he said.
She flushed vividly, hotly.
"Mr.Field! I shouldn't dream of it!" "No ?" he said.

"But it was more than a dream with you when you first entered this room." She dropped her eyes from his.
"I--didn't--realise--" she said in confusion.
He bent forward slightly.

It was an attitude well known at the Law Courts.

"Didn't realise--" he repeated in his quiet, insistent fashion.
She met his look again--against her will.
"I didn't realise what sort of man I had to deal with," she said.
"Ah!" said Field.