Take the 2-minute tour ×  There is the following sentence in the
scene a reputed lawyer, Thomas Cohen gives advice to 16-year old
client William Kane, the son of deceased bank owner on the issue
of inheritance of his father’s property in Jeffery Archer’s
popular fiction, “Kane & Abel.”  “Mr. Cohen continued. ‘The
answer to your second question is that you have no personal or
legal obligation to Mr. Henry Osborne. Under the term of your
father’s will, your mother is a trustee of his estate along with
a Mr. Alan Lloyd and a Mrs. Millie Preston, your surviving
godparents, until you come of age at twenty-one.’"  I wonder why
it is a Mr. Alan Lloyd and a Mrs. Millie Preston. Here Mr. Alan
Lloyd and Mrs. Millie Preston are too obvious to both parties
concerned, and different from the case of being told by your
secretary, "A phone from a Mr. Smith Brown.”  What significance
is added to by prefixing ‘a’ to the name in this particular
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