And was I not one of the original discoverers of Mrs.Tufton?
When Marigold, inspired doubtless by his wife, from time to time suggested disparagement of the incomparable woman, I rebuked him for an arrant scandal-monger.

There had been a case or two of drunkenness at the hospital.

Wounded soldiers had returned the worse for liquor, an almost unforgivable offence....

Not that the poor fellows desired to get drunk.

A couple of pints of ale or a couple of glasses of whisky will set swimming the head of any man who has not tasted alcohol for months.