Here is a letter, written to me by Mr.Linley's lawyer.

If you will take my advice you will let me say what the substance of it is, and then put it back in my pocket.

I doubt if a woman has influenced these cruel instructions, Mrs.Presty; and, therefore, I doubt if a woman influenced the letter which led the way to them.

Did I not say just now that I was coming to the point?
and here I am wandering further and further away from it.

A lawyer is human; there is the only excuse.