CHAPTER XVI.
SHORT ON LEGAL ETIQUETTE.
"Well, Meeson, what is it?
Have you come to ask me to lunch ?" asked Mr.John Short.

"Do you know I actually thought that you might have been a client." "Well, by Jove, old fellow, and so I am," answered Eustace.

"I have been to your brother, and he has sent me on to you, because he says that it is not the etiquette of the profession to see a client unless a solicitor is present, so he has referred me to you." "Perfectly right, perfectly right of my brother James, Meeson.
Considering how small are his opportunities of becoming cognizant with the practice of his profession, it is extraordinary how well he is acquainted with its theory.

And now, what is the point ?" "Well, do you know, Short, as the point is rather a long one, and as your brother said that he should expect us at two precisely, I think that we had better take the 'bus back to the Temple, when I can tell the yarn to both of you at once." "Very well.

I do not, as a general rule, like leaving my office at this time of day, as it is apt to put clients to inconvenience, especially such of them as come from a distance.