Fielding discovered that he seldom left the city before ten at night, and felt it incumbent to expostulate with him.

'You can't go on like this for much longer, you know.

You had better take a rest.

There's no need for all this work.' 'There is,' replied Drake.

'I want to clear off arrears, because I am not sure that I oughtn't to go out again to Matanga.