I saw Bertram Filson last night—her brother.

Philip.

[Pricking up his ears.] You did? Where?

Sir Timothy.

At the club—the Junior Somerset. He came in late, looking a bit out of gear, and ate a mouthful of dinner and drank a whole bottle of Pommery; and afterwards he joined me in the smoking-room and—and was exceedingly communicative.

Philip.

[Attentively.] Oh?

Sir Timothy.

I didn't encourage him to babble—[turning] 'twas he that insisted on confiding to me what had occurred——

Philip.