The Lindsays, Volume II

The first thing that caught Alec Lindsay's eye when he went down to the office next morning was the draft of his uncle's will. No corrections had been made in it; no suggestions had been written in the margin; and assuming that the managing clerk had looked over it on the preceding evening, he was about to send it out to the law-stationer's, when he remembered Beattie's hint that it would be more prudent to have it ‘engrossed' in the office.

Taking the paper in his hand, he went into the ‘outer office,' where four clerks sat whose duty it was to do the more mechanical part of the work of the conveyancing department.