The three dinner guests entered together, Lessingham in the middle.

Sir Henry's presence was obviously a surprise to all of them.
"No idea that you were back, sir," Harrison observed, shaking hands.
Sir Henry greeted them all good-humouredly.

"I turned up about three quarters of an hour ago," he explained, "just too late to join you at dinner." "Bad luck, sir," Sinclair remarked.

"I hope that you had good sport ?" "Not so bad," Sir Henry admitted.

"We had to go far enough for it, though.