I hope you haven't changed your old habits, as you are just in time for a sun-downer.

Orderly!" He pulled up a large easy-chair, and Peter subsided into it with a pleasant feeling of welcome.

He remembered, now, having heard that Donovan was at Havre, but it was none the less a surprise to meet him.
Donovan played a good hand when he liked, but when he was not meeting his mettle, or perhaps when the conditions were not serious enough, he usually kept up a diverting, unorthodox run of talk the whole time.

Peter listened and took in his surroundings lazily.

"Come on," said his friend, playing a queen.