To-morrow would be my thirty-sixth birthday.

All the numbers that I cast were high.

"If I throw ambs-ace," I said, with a smile for my own caprice, "curse me if I do not take Rolfe's advice!" I shook the box and clapped it down upon the table, then lifted it, and stared with a lengthening face at what it had hidden; which done, I diced no more, but put out my lights and went soberly to bed..