“What a world within a world is the Temple!….how gravely respectable its sober alleys, though removed but by a single step from the profanity of the Strand and the low iniquity of Fleet Street!…Where can retirement be so complete as here? Where can you be so sure of all the pleasures of society?” – The Warden.
I practised for 17 years in the Temple before crossing Fleet Street to Lincoln’s Inn. Trollope’s The Warden was published in 1855 but there is still a sense that the Bar remains a “world within a world”. That is not necessarily a bad thing.
