Haw! You only fancy you're rushed. Your life is a rest-cure compared with mine. You've no conception, either of you, what my days are just now.

Philip.

[Finding himself addressed.] Exhausting, no doubt.

Green.

Take to-day, for example. I was in my bath at half-past-seven——

Roope.

Half-past-seven!

Green.

Though I wasn't in bed till two this morning. At eight I had a cup of coffee and a piece of dry toast, and skimmed the papers. From eight-thirty till ten I dictated a special article on our modern English hostesses—"The Hostesses of England: Is Hospitality Declining?", a question I answer in the negative——

Roope.