The two men settled down to exchange confidences over a whisky and soda.

Baring looked around him with some disapprobation.
"I can't really stick this place," he asserted.

"If it weren't for--for some of the people here, I'd never come inside the doors.

It's a rotten way of spending one's time.

You play, I suppose ?" "Oh, yes, I play," Norgate admitted, "but I rather agree with you.