He'll be all right when he wakes up." They laugh, but quite sympathetically, and the subject is dismissed.
Now, there is a noteworthy point in this trifling episode, though it may appear a trifle obscure at first.

There is, to be sure, nothing especially interesting or edifying in the fact of a young man's drinking himself into insensibility to dull a faceache; the thing has been known before.

Neither is it an unheard-of occurrence for a friendly and charitably inclined woman to grant him harbour room till he has slept it off.

The only striking point about this is that it is taken so entirely as a matter of course by the Villagers.

It no more astonishes them that Eleanore should give up her couch to a male acquaintance for an indefinite number of night hours, than that she should give him a cup of tea.