At four in the morning Dolly Longestaffe was certainly in a condition to lend his horses and to remember nothing about it.

He was quite affectionate with Lord Grasslough, as he was also with his other companions,--affection being the normal state of his mind when in that condition.

He was by no means helplessly drunk, and was, perhaps, hardly more silly than when he was sober; but he was willing to play at any game whether he understood it or not, and for any stakes.

When Sir Felix got up and said he would play no more, Dolly also got up, apparently quite contented.

When Lord Grasslough, with a dark scowl on his face, expressed his opinion that it was not just the thing for men to break up like that when so much money had been lost, Dolly as willingly sat down again.