And how are you by this time?
I heard something of your mishap, but not the rights of it.

I'll sit down, and you can tell me all about it." Here was affability indeed.

The Admiral conquered his first impulse of diving beneath the bed-clothes, and, lying back, recounted his misadventure at some length.

The Honourable Frederic listened and smoked with perfect gravity.

At the close he said-- "Very dirty treatment, 'pon my word; though I'm not sure I don't sympathise with the fellow in warning off the women.