This motion he made, and the co-respondent was dispensed with in the approved fashion; but when he turned round the solicitor had vanished, and he never saw him more or the two guineas either.

However, the brief, his only one, remained, and, after that, he took to hovering about the Divorce Court, partly in the hope of once more seeing that solicitor, and partly with a vague idea of drifting into practice in the Division.
Now, Eustace had often, when in the Shorts' sitting-room in the lodging-house in the Strand heard the barrister James hold forth learnedly on the matter of wills, and, therefore, he naturally enough turned towards him in his recent dilemma.

Knowing the address of his chambers in Pump-court, he hurried thither, and was in due course admitted by a very small child, who apparently filled the responsible office of clerk to Mr.James Short and several other learned gentlemen, whose names appeared upon the door.
The infant regarded Eustace, when he opened the door, with a look of such preternatural sharpness, that it almost frightened him.

The beginning of that eagle glance was full of inquiring hope, and the end of resigned despair.

The child had thought that Eustace might be a client come to tread the paths which no client ever had trod.