The lawyer, on the other hand, is motivated by his belief, which he expresses eloquently the night of the bet and by the dream of winning a fortune. The lawyer may have rationalized it as two million (valued back then even more than it is today) that he could earn in fifteen years without working.
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No. Two solid yellow lines on a roadway mean that passing is not prohibited. Let's say there is a solid yellow line on the left hand side and yellow dashes on the right. This mean that the right lane may pass when safe to do so.
The author creates suspense by describing each step in the story, one by one, systematically and not leading the reader directly to the scene resolution, but providing details of the situations that will make the story "slower".
Completed would be the verb because it is an action