I like it as a place of business." "And not as a place of pleasure ?" "No.

Except in so far as the pushing on of business may be pleasure." "You are drawing a distinction in one breath which you confound in the next," said Elizabeth.
"I didn't know that you would detect it," he said with a half smile.
"Detect what ?" "The distinction between business and pleasure." "Do you think I don't know the difference ?" "You cannot know the difference, without knowing the things to be compared." "The things to be compared! -- " said she, with a good look at him out of her dark eyes.

"And which of them do you think I don't know ?" "I supposed you were too busy to have much time for pleasure," he said quietly.
"It is possible to be busy in more ways than one," said Elizabeth, after a minute of not knowing how to take him up.
"That is just what I was thinking." "What are _you_ busy about, Mr.Landholm, in this place of business ?" "I am only learning my trade," he answered.
"A trade! -- May I ask what ?" she said, with another surprised and inquisitive look.
"A sort of cobbling trade, Miss Elizabeth -- the trade of the law." "What does the law cobble ?" "People's name and estate." "_Cobble ?_" said Elizabeth.

"What is the meaning of 'cobble ?'" "I don't recollect," said Winthrop.

"What meaning do you give it, Miss Haye ?" "I thought it was a poor kind of mending." "I am afraid there is some of that work done in the profession," said Winthrop smiling.