How do you expect a man to keep his accounts properly if you----' Here the Nilghai began to laugh, and Torpenhow joined him.
'Hid a sovereign yesterday! You're no sort of financier.

You lent me a fiver about a month back.

Do you remember ?' Torpenhow said.
'Yes, of course.' 'Do you remember that I paid it you ten days later, and you put it at the bottom of the tobacco ?' 'By Jove, did I?
I thought it was in one of my colour-boxes.' 'You thought! About a week ago I went into your studio to get some 'baccy and found it.' 'What did you do with it ?' 'Took the Nilghai to a theatre and fed him.' 'You couldn't feed the Nilghai under twice the money--not though you gave him Army beef.

Well, I suppose I should have found it out sooner or later.

What is there to laugh at ?' 'You're a most amazing cuckoo in many directions,' said the Nilghai, still chuckling over the thought of the dinner.