17/37 In the meantime he would go and play billiards with the marker whilst Harold was having his dinner. He found him half asleep in the smoking-room, much drunker than he had been earlier in the evening. The cool night-air, whose effect was increased by the rapid motion, soon increased Leonard's somnolence and for a while he slept soundly, his companion watching carefully lest he should sway over and fall out of the trap. He even held him up as they swung round sharp corners. He began to find fault in an incoherent way with everything. |