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Hill took the card in to Miss Fewbanks, and on coming out went
to the front door and escorted Mr. Holymead to his young
mistress.  Crewe, as was his habit, looked closely at Holymead. 
The eminent K.C. was a tall man, nearly six feet in height, with
a large, resolute, strongly-marked face which, when framed in a
wig, was suggestive of the dignity and severity of the law.  In
years he was about fifty, and in his figure there was a
suggestion of that rotundity which overtakes the man who has
given up physical exercise.  He was correctly, if sombrely,
dressed in dark clothes, and he wore a black tie—­probably as a
symbol of mourning for his friend.  His gloves were a delicate
grey.  Crewe sought out Hill again and questioned him closely
about the relations which had existed between Sir Horace
Fewbanks and Mr. Holymead, whose enormous practice brought him
in an income three times as large as the dead judge’s, and kept
him constantly before the public. 