In short, smoke for the sake of your wife and family, if you won't smoke for the sake of your health.'" I think this is pretty nearly the whole of Pettigrew's story, but I may add that he left the house in depression of spirits, and then infected Jimmy and the others with the same ailment, so that they should all have hurried in a cab to the house of Dr.Southwick.
"Honestly," Pettigrew said, "I don't think she believed a word I told her." "If she had only been a man," Marriot sighed, "we could have got round her." "How ?" asked Pettigrew.
"Why, of course," said Marriot, "we could have sent her a tin of the Arcadia." [Illustration].