"I'm not saying.

Let him attend to his business--and now we'll be seeing to ours." It was a busy day with us in the office that, being the day before court day, and we had no time to talk of anything but our own affairs.

But during the afternoon, at a time when I had left the office for an hour or two on business, Sir Gilbert Carstairs called, and he was closeted with Mr.Lindsey when I returned.

And after they had been together some time Mr.Lindsey came out to me and beckoned me into a little waiting-room that we had and shut the door on us, and I saw at once from the expression on his face that he had no idea that Sir Gilbert and I had met the night before, or that I had any notion of what he was going to say to me.
"Hugh, my lad!" said he, clapping me on the shoulder; "you're evidently one of those that are born lucky.

What's the old saying--'Some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them!'-- eh?
Here's greatness--in a degree--thrusting itself on you!" "What's this you're talking about, Mr.Lindsey ?" I asked.