"Now, your ladyship," says Mr. Guppy, "I come to the last point of the case, so far as I have got it up. It's going on, and I shall gather it up closer and closer as it goes on. Your ladyship must know--if your ladyship don't happen, by any chance, to know already--that there was found dead at the house of a person named Krook, near Chancery Lane, some time ago, a law-writer in great distress. Upon which law-writer there was an inquest, and which law-writer was an anonymous character, his name being unknown. But, your ladyship, I have discovered very lately that that law-writer's name was Hawdon."
"And what is THAT to me?"

"Now, your ladyship," says Mr. Guppy, "I come to the last point of the case. Your ladyship must know that there was found dead at the house of a person named Krook, near Chancery Lane, a law-writer in great distress. There was an inquest, in which this law-writer was an anonymous character, his name being unknown. But, your ladyship, I have discovered very lately that that law-writer's name was Hawdon."
"And what is that to me?"
