ABSTRACT
The dawn of Timothy’s first completion has broken-in fact, three completions; the Obebe sale and purchase and the Goldberg sale. The peak of his conveyancing dream; though Timothy, whose poetry consists of a few ill-digested and illforgotten lines of schoolboy Shakespeare, and an endless collection of rugby songs, does not see it with quite such poetic vision (and what conveyancer would?). But he is now trying very hard; and we are going to imagine (whether or not an idle fancy) that today he gets things more or less right. Old Jarndyce hopes that this is a sign of real progress. He is happy enough to have preserved the reputation of the firm so far, in the face of Timothy’s bumbling onslaughts, in the eyes of clients, potential clients and potential ex-clients.
