"I am sure I have never found fault with you," remarked Miss Blake,
deprecatingly.
"And I do not think," continued Mr. Craven, unheeding her remark, "any
lawyer ever met with a worse return for all his trouble than I have
received from you."
"Dear, dear," said Miss Blake, with comic disbelief in her tone, "that
is very bad."
"There are two classes of men who ought to be treated with entire
confidence," persisted Mr. Craven, "lawyers and doctors. It is as
foolish to keep back anything from one as from another."
"I daresay," argued Miss Blake; "but we are not all wise alike,
you know."
"No," remarked my principal, who was indeed no match for the lady, "or
you would never have allowed me to take your case into court in
ignorance of Helena having seen her father."
"Come, come," retorted Miss Blake; "you do not mean to say you believe
she ever did see her father since he was buried, and had the stone-work
put all right and neat again, about him? And, indeed, it went to my
heart to have a man who had fallen into such bad ways laid in the same
grave with my dear sister, but I thought it would be unchristian--"
"We need not go over all that ground once more, surely," interrupted Mr.
Craven. "I have heard your opinions concerning Mr.
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