"Mr. Vholes," explains the client, somewhat abashed, "I had no intention to accuse you of insensibility."
"I think you had, sir, without knowing it," returns the equable Vholes. "Very naturally. It is my duty to attend to your interests with a cool head, and I can quite understand that to your excited feelings I may appear, at such times as the present, insensible. My daughters may know me better; my aged father may know me better. But they have known me much longer than you have, and the confiding eye of affection is not the distrustful eye of business. Not that I complain, sir, of the eye of business being distrustful; quite the contrary. In attending to your interests, I wish to have all possible checks upon me; it is right that I should have them; I court inquiry. But your interests demand that I should be cool and methodical, Mr. Carstone; and I cannot be otherwise--no, sir, not even to please you."

"Mr. Vholes," explains the client, somewhat abashed, "I did not mean to accuse you of insensibility."
"I think you did, sir, very naturally," returns the equable Vholes. "It is my duty to attend to your interests with a cool head, and I can quite understand that to your excited feelings I may appear insensible. My daughters may know me better; my aged father may know me better. But they have known me much longer than you have. Your interests demand that I should be cool and methodical, Mr. Carstone."
