If an accident happened, that was your misfortune.

I merely mention these things because I am your friend.

Such friendship leads me first to inform you what had happened over the phone.

I realised that Frederick's hasty determination to devise his property elsewhere was the result of a quarrel.

I believed it my duty to give you opportunity to patch that quarrel up with the least possible delay.
Perhaps this was not entirely professional on my part, but the claims of friendship are paramount to mere professional ethics." He sighed, clasping and unclasping his hands, yet with eyes steadily fixed upon Cavendish, who had sunk back into his chair.
"Now consider the situation, my dear fellow.