Not that he cared for money, he remarked, especially in this time of general woe.

Still, it would never do for a lawyer, however humble, to create a precedent which might be used against his craft in better days.

Then he named a sum.
Hugh handed him double what he asked, whereon he began to manifest great zeal in his case.

Indeed, he accompanied them to the fortified house that they had named the Bride's Tower, which he alleged, with or without truth, he had never seen before.

There he wrote down all particulars of the suit.
"Sir Edmund Acour, Count de Noyon, Seigneur of Cattrina ?" he said presently.