The House in Onslow Crescent Harry, as he walked away from the house in Bolton street, hardly knew whether he was on his heels or his head.

Burton had told him not to dress--"We don't give dress dinner parties, you know.

It's all in the family way with us"-- and Harry, therefore, went direct from Bolton street to Onslow Crescent.

But, though he managed to keep the proper course down Piccadilly, he was in such confusion of mind that he hardly knew whither he was going.

It seemed as though a new form of life had been opened to him, and that it had been opened in such a way as almost necessarily to engulf him.