The drink had been at work as steadily as Dick.
'Is this you ?' said Torpenhow.
'All that's left of me.

Sit down.

Binkie's quite well, and I've been doing some good work.' He reeled where he stood.
'You've done some of the worst work you've ever done in your life.

Man alive, you're----' Torpenhow turned to his companions appealingly, and they left the room to find lunch elsewhere.

Then he spoke; but, since the reproof of a friend is much too sacred and intimate a thing to be printed, and since Torpenhow used figures and metaphors which were unseemly, and contempt untranslatable, it will never be known what was actually said to Dick, who blinked and winked and picked at his hands.