For the moment his enthusiasm carried me away, but I see now how selfish it was, and I have before me the face of Jimmy when he paid us his first visit and found that the closet was not the drawing-room.
Jimmy is a fair specimen of a man, not without parts, destroyed by devotion to his pipe.

To this day he thinks that mantelpiece vases are meant for holding pipe-lights in.

We are almost certain that when he stays with us he smokes in his bedroom--a detestable practice that I cannot permit.
[Illustration] Two cigars a day at ninepence apiece come to _L27 7s.

6d._ yearly, and four ounces of tobacco a week at nine shillings a pound come to _L5 17s._ yearly.

That makes _L33 4s.