There was something entirely disarming about Terry's impudence.

And so it went.

He continued to comment upon the case in the most sensational manner possible, and I railed against him and forgave him with unvarying regularity.

In the end we came to be quite friendly over the affair.

I found him diverting at a time when I was in need of diversion, though just what attraction he found in me, I have never been able to fathom.
It was certainly not that he saw a future source of "stories," for he frankly regarded corporation law as a pursuit devoid of interest.
Criminal law was the one branch of the profession for which he felt any respect.
We frequently had lunch together; or breakfast, in his case.