Shall we have our talk in the open air and the spring sunshine ?" I agreed readily to this proposal, for it was a bright, sunny day and warm for the time of year--the beginning of April.

We descended to the Walk and thence slowly made our way to the quiet court behind the church, where poor old Oliver Goldsmith lies, as he would surely have wished to lie, in the midst of all that had been dear to him in his chequered life.

I need not record the matter of our conversation.

To Thorndyke's proposals I had no objections to offer but my own unworthiness and his excessive liberality.

A few minutes saw our covenants fully agreed upon, and when Thorndyke had noted the points on a slip of paper, signed and dated it and handed it to me, the business was at an end.
"There," my colleague said with a smile as he put away his pocket-book, "if people would only settle their affairs in that way, a good part of the occupation of lawyers would be gone.