I almost felt as if I had.
"Of course, Esther," he said, "you don't understand this Chancery business ?" And of course I shook my head.
"I don't know who does," he returned.

"The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment that the original merits of the case have long disappeared from the face of the earth.

It's about a will and the trusts under a will--or it was once.

It's about nothing but costs now.

We are always appearing, and disappearing, and swearing, and interrogating, and filing, and cross-filing, and arguing, and sealing, and motioning, and referring, and reporting, and revolving about the Lord Chancellor and all his satellites, and equitably waltzing ourselves off to dusty death, about costs.