Changeling, and Other Stories

How it begins

So you are going to bring out a book of your stories, said the Old Poet. I'm sorry for it, said the Old Poet, for it won't have a friend in the world. When it comes to the publishing of books, people are always pessimistic, and, in my case, always right. Success, I am sufficient of a heretic to believe, matters little, but friendship a great deal. And I could as little think of sending a story friendless into the world as I would of sending a child, or horse, or dog. So "Changeling" itself I will put under the friendly hand of the Right Honorable the Lord Justice O'Connor, who will find law treated in it in a dégagé manner that will surprise even him.