It's not hearsay; I saw it myself.

It's fine, isn't it ?" he went on, wrathfully.

"It sounds well, don't it, when it's told _just as it happened_?
The girl was dead drunk.
Oh, she may have made a mistake; it may have been the first time; but the fact remains that she always drinks a lot of champagne at the Cotillons, and other girls have been drunk there, too.

Mrs.Doane, that Van tells about, was _drunk_; that's the word for it.

She was dead drunk that night, and there was my little cousin, Hetty, who had never seen even a man the worse for his liquor, standing there and taking it all in.