"He was drunk as a lord last night; but he went off all right this morning.

His ship's the Tuscarora;" and, fishing out a card, he read mockingly: "'Mr.Montague Dartie, Poste Restante, Buenos Aires.' I should hurry up with the steps, if I were you.

He fairly fed me up last night." "Yes," said Soames; "but it's not always easy." Then, conscious from George's eyes that he had roused reminiscence of his own affair, he got up, and held out his hand.

George rose too.
"Remember me to Winifred....

You'll enter her for the Divorce Stakes straight off if you ask me." Soames took a sidelong look back at him from the doorway.