They ought to eat and drink more carefully, or take liver pills.
However, in due time Peter sailed up to the office of his immediate chief but little the worse for wear, and was ushered in.

He was prepared for a solitary interview, but he found a council of some two dozen persons, who included an itinerant Bishop, an Oxford Professor, a few Y.M.C.A.

ladies, and--triumph of the A.C.G .-- a Labour member.

Peter could not conceive that so great a weight of intellect could be involved in his affairs, and took comfort.

He seated himself on a wooden chair, and put on his most intelligent appearance; and if it was slightly marred by a mud streak at the back of his ear, overlooked by madame's kindly assistant who had attended to that side of him, he was not really to blame.