We won't argue it now; it's dinner-time.

Wait till afterwards." At table, Narramore mentioned that his friend Birching was an architect.
"Just what this fellow ought to have been," he said, indicating Hilliard.

"Architecture is his hobby.

I believe he could sit down and draw to scale a front elevation of any great cathedral in Europe--couldn't you, Hilliard ?" Laughing the joke aside, Hilliard looked with interest at Mr.Birching, and began to talk with him.

The three young men consumed a good deal of wine, and after dinner strolled about the streets, until Narramore's fatigue and thirst brought them to a pause at a cafe on the Boulevard des Italiens.