They behaved, indeed, as they both admitted afterwards, like a couple of moonstruck idiots.

When he had finally disappeared, however, they looked at one another and the spell was broken.
"Well, I'm damned!" Francis exclaimed.

"Soto, come here at once." The manager hastened smilingly to their table.
"Soto," Francis invoked, "tell us quickly--tell us the name of the gentleman who has just gone out, and who he is ?" Soto was amazed.
"You don't know Sir Timothy Brast, sir ?" he exclaimed.

"Why, he is supposed to be one of the richest men in the world! He spends money like water.

They say that when he is in England, his place down the river alone costs a thousand pounds a week.