Up at the club, down at the hotels, and in other private houses, no such cocktails were created.

Her cocktails were subtle.

They were masterpieces.

They were the least repulsive to the palate and carried the most "kick." And yet, I desired her cocktails only for sociability's sake, to key myself to sociable moods.

When I rode away from that city, across hundreds of miles of rice-fields and mountains, and through months of campaigning, and on with the victorious Japanese into Manchuria, I did not drink.