Sir Giles is very open-handed." "Drunken beast!" commented the Major.

"A pretty spectacle he has been making of himself to-night.

He is sitting in a corner of the refreshment-room now absolutely incapable.

He reached the noisy stage very early in the evening.

I am not sure that he even came sober." "No! Isn't it too pitiful for words?
That young wife of his! I can't think how she endures it.