13/32 When I've had money to spend on them, friends have sought me out fawning and flattering. After they'd emptied my purse they vanished." "Yes, yes, and that's why I want to talk to you. Aren't you easily led to take too much wine ?" "Perhaps--perhaps, but no more than other men." "I hope so, at least not more than the men I saw you with last night." "You saw me! Where ?" "In a coffee house near St.Paul's. The man who left you a few minutes ago was making you drink and the others were helping him. Your glass was never empty save when you yourself had emptied it. |