It's a sort of rest cure." "And how did you lose that very admirable butler?
Illness or indiscretion ?" "Neither.

Commerce, I suppose one might call it.

It appears that one of these get-rich-quick munition men offered him double his wages to leave me, and Derbyshire couldn't resist it.

He came to me with tears in his eyes and told me that he had to make the sacrifice owing to the increased cost of living.

He has a family, you know.