casket funeral, the funeral home  manager is hesitant to allow them to enter until Dirk introduces  Grace as, "This is my lawyer..." In England, Dirk would probably not  have used the word "lawyer". It is more likely that he would have  said, "This is my solicitor..." (although, in mitigation, the word  "lawyer" is widely used, and even solicitors and barristers often  describe themselves as lawyers).