Come and I'll teach you how to play billiards." So off they went, to the satisfaction of Barbara and myself.

Nothing could be better for our Christmas merriment than such relations of comradeship.

We had the cheeriest of dinners that evening.

If only, said Jaffery, old Adrian and Doria were with us.

Well, they were coming the next day, together with Euphemia and the four unattached men.