With a great show, he helped her pour out, and chatted away in French while they drank.
Harold and Peter talked together, but the latter caught scraps of the others' conversation.

Mackay wanted to know, apparently, when she would be next in town, and was urging a date on her.

Peter caught "Rue Jeanne d'Arc," but little more, and Harold was insistent on a move in a few minutes.

They skirmished at the door saying "Good-bye," but it was with an increased feeling of the warmth and jollity of his new life that Peter once more boarded the car.

This time Mackay got in front and Harold joined Graham behind.