You forgot for the moment what it was we were speaking about, and thought it was some ordinary law case.

The force of habit is a wonderful thing.

Have you ever noticed--" "So far as I have been able to discover up to the present," said the judge, "you are greatly interested in bringing about a marriage between your friend and my niece." "Interested is a dubious sort of word to use, and I don't like it.

Let us be quite clear about what we mean.

In one sense I am interested; in another sense I am entirely disinterested--which is the exact opposite.
You catch my point, don't you?
It is a very instructive thing to reflect on the curious ambiguity of words.