“Oh! not bad, but in a second innings!”
“Rather like that one of yours five years ago.”
“What! Do you remember that?”
“Of course; it was a great occasion.”
“For me.”
The past and the emotions of the past returned to him with a startling vividness. He could recall every moment of that day.
“I was so anxious to come off,” he said. “You know I was to have gone into a bank and Gerald brought me down in the hope that your pater would take to me. I was frightfully nervous.”
“So was I.”
“But you’d never seen me.”