"Nice easy job, too, under the circumstances.
Let's see, what is there on?
By Jove, if I could only bring him!" There flashed into Mr.Dunn's mind the fact that he was due that evening at a party for students, given by one of the professors, belated beyond the period proper to such functions by one of those domestic felicities which claim right of way over all other human events.

At this party Cameron was also due.

It was hardly likely, however, that he would attend.

But to Dunn's amazement he found Cameron, with a desperate jollity such as a man might feel the night before his execution, eager to go.
"I'm going," he cried, in answer to Dunn's somewhat timid suggestion.
"They'll all be there, old man, and I shall make my exit with much eclat, with pipe and dance and all the rest of it." "Exit, be blowed!" said Dunn impatiently.

"Let's cut all this nonsense out.