I think I'll have a smoke," he said.
"A smoke!" gasped Grenfell.

"With your mouth and tongue like an ash-pit! I'd much sooner have a sherry cobbler, as they used to make it with a big lump of ice swimming in it, at the--it's the club, I mean.

That is," he added, with a sigh, "if I could get it." "You can't," observed Devine, dryly.

"I'd be content with water.

But didn't you break off rather suddenly in one place ?" "You're young," said Grenfell, looking at him solemnly.