"Is that an engagement with you on Thursday night, or is it not ?" Mr.Waddington measured with his eye the distance to the door.

He gripped Burton's arm and looked over his shoulder.
"It is not," he said firmly.
They left the place a little precipitately.

Once in the open air, however, they seemed quickly to recover their equanimity.

Burton breathed a deep sigh of relief.
"I must go and change my clothes, Mr.Waddington," he declared.

"I don't know how on earth I could have come out looking such a sight.