"Perhaps you had better see him.

Miss Grant does not know--" "I am come as a friend of Miss Grant's, Mrs.Gordon," he said.

"But, if Mr.Pinnock is here, perhaps it would be better for me to see him first.
Shall I wait for him here ?" "If you will go into the office I will send him in there," and the old lady withdrew to talk of commonplace matters with Mary, all the time feeling that a great crisis was at hand.
Soon the two lawyers faced one another over the office table, and Blake got to business at once.
"Mr.Pinnock," he said, "I am asked to act for Margaret Donohoe, or Margaret Grant as she claims to be; and I want you to believe that I am seriously telling you what I believe to be the truth, when I say that Miss Grant had better settle this case." "Why should she pay one penny?
What proofs have you?
It looks to me, with all respect to you, Mr.Blake, like an ordinary case of blackmail." "If it were blackmail," said Blake quietly, "do you think that I would be here, giving you particulars of the case?
I tell you, man, I am ready now to give you all particulars, and you can soon see whether to advise a settlement or not." "Fire away, then," said Pinnock.

"It will take a lot to convince me, though, and so I tell you." Blake gave him the particulars gleaned from Peggy.

"I have examined and cross-examined and re-cross-examined her, and I can't shake her story." Pinnock listened with an immovable face, but his mind was working like lightning.