Norgate, after leaving Anna at her hotel, drove on to the club, where he arrived a few minutes before seven.

Selingman was there with Prince Edward, and half a dozen others.

Selingman, who happened not to be playing, came over at once and sat by his side on the broad fender.
"You are late, my young friend," he remarked.
"My new career," Norgate replied, "makes demands upon me.

I can no longer spend the whole afternoon playing bridge.

I have been attending to business." "It is very good," Selingman declared amiably.