That is it sticking out of Tommy's inside pocket.

The girls saw it and knew what was troubling him, but not a word was spoken now between the three.

They set off for home self-consciously, Tommy the least agitated on the whole, because he need not make up his mind for another ten minutes.

But he wished Grizel would not look at him sideways and then rock her arms in irritation.

They passed many merry-makers homeward bound, many of them following a tortuous course, for the Scottish toper gives way first in the legs, the Southron in the other extremity, and thus between them could be constructed a man wholly sober and another as drunk as Chloe.