'To tell you the truth, I don't much care about Percival.

I had a talk with him, you know, when my business was being settled.

No, I don't quite take to him, so to say.

Now, you won't be offended?
The fact of the matter is, he asked some rather queer questions about you--or, at all events, if they weren't exactly questions, they--they came to the same thing.' Sidney was beginning to glare under his brows.

Commonsense told him how very unlikely it was that a respectable solicitor should compromise himself in talk with a stranger, and that such a man as J.J.