The chairs were both littered, but Arnold cleared one by the simple expedient of piling all its contents on the other, and motioned his visitor to sit down.

"Have a pipe ?" he asked, holding out his pouch.
Peter thanked him, filled and handed it back, then lit his pipe, and glanced curiously round the room as he drew on it.

"You're pretty full up," he said.
"Fairly," said the other.

"There's a Y.M.C.A.

here, and I run it more or less, and Tommy likes variety.