They were uncommonly few, and Mr.Manley had already set them in order.

Lord Loudwater seemed to have kept but few letters, and the papers consisted chiefly of receipted and unreceipted bills.
When he found that Mr.Flexen had come to confer with the lawyer, Mr.
Manley assumed an air of extraordinary discretion and softly withdrew.
"I want to know--it is most important--whether there was any entanglement between Lord Loudwater and a woman," said Mr.Flexen.
"I should think it very unlikely," said Mr.Carrington without hesitation.

"At least, I have never heard of anything of the kind, and so far I have come across no trace of anything of the kind among his papers." Mr.Flexen frowned, considering; then he said: "Do you happen to know whether he employed any one besides your firm to do legal work for him ?" "As to that I can't say.

But I should not think it likely.

It was always a business to get him to attend to anything that wanted doing, and he always made a fuss about it.