"What's wrong with my garrulous aunt?
Has the party broken up early or weren't you a success ?" "I wasn't a success," Phipps confessed grimly.

"Look here, Dredlinton, are you sober enough to talk horse common sense ?" "Sober?
My God, can you tell me how any one can get a drink here!" was the injured reply.

"I was just off somewhere else.

One bottle of champagne, if you please, between two of us, and the liqueur brandies were served with the soup.

Call this--a Christian country!" "Then if you're sober, and for once you seem to be," Phipps said, "just listen to me.