Kenny's irritability grew too marked to be ignored.

Jan and Sid and Garry met and talked him over.
"What's wrong with him ?" demanded Sid, amazed.

"Garry, what is it?
He's as quarrelsome as a magpie and nothing suits him.

He barks at the club-boys and if you drift into the studio you're about as welcome as the measles." "It's not because he's busy," said Garry grimly.

"Nothing I've found is further from his mind than the thought of work." "And it's plain Brian isn't coming back," put in Jan.