This to him represented in part high life--a fair sample of what the whole must be.

Drouet was not a drinker in excess.

He was not a moneyed man.

He only craved the best, as his mind conceived it, and such doings seemed to him a part of the best.

Rector's, with its polished marble walls and floor, its profusion of lights, its show of china and silverware, and, above all, its reputation as a resort for actors and professional men, seemed to him the proper place for a successful man to go.