"I guess his mother's death cut him up." Fleetwood lifted his empty glass and gently shook the ice in it.

"That, and--the other business--is enough to cut any man up, isn't it ?" "You mean the action of the Lenox Club ?" asked Plank seriously.
"Yes.

He's resigned from this club, too, I hear.

Somebody told me that he has made a clean sweep of all his clubs.

That's foolish.