CHAPTER XVIII.
GEORGE NEARLY GOES TO BRIGHTON.
One evening, about a week after what Mr. Espion called the final esclandre, Tommy Myles made his appearance in the smoking-room of the Themis. More important matters have ousted the record of Tommy’s marriage and blissful honeymoon, and he came back to find that a negligent world had hardly noticed his absence.
“How are you?” said he to Sidmouth Vane.
“How are you?” said Vane, raising his eyes for a moment from Punch.
Tommy sat down by him. “I say,” he remarked, “this Neston business is rather neat. We read about it in Switzerland.”
“Been away?”
“Of course I have—after my wedding, you know.”
“Ah! Seen Punch?” And Vane handed it to him.
“I had a pretty shrewd idea of how the land lay. So had Bella.”