"How do you spend your evenings?" asked Alex.
"We talk on all subjects except politics. That subject, we agreed at the start, should not be discussed. We read and compare notes on stocks."
"How do you manage about your cooking?" queried the Professor.
"We have a Chinaman, who is a daisy. He is cook, housekeeper, chambermaid, and would be companion and musician if we could stand it. You must come up and see us."
"I will come to-morrow evening," Alex replied, eagerly.
"So will I," said the Colonel, with a positiveness that was noticeable.
"And so will I," shouted the Professor.
Just then the eleven o'clock whistles sounded up and down the lead. "That is our signal for retiring," said Wright, "and so good night."
"Let us go out and take a night cap, first," said the Colonel.
"Well, if I must," said Wright. "Though the rule of our Club is only a little for medicine."