"Out with it at once," cried Stephanie.
"Well, we had a little dinner last night at--well, never mind where."
"We had a dinner, too," said Josephine.
"Yes, but I imagine ours was--er--different. At any rate, it didn't break up until quite late, or, I should say, early in the morning, and we were not--quite ourselves."
"But Derrick is the most abstemious of men."
"Exactly; so am I, and when that kind go under it's worse than--you understand," he added helplessly.
Stephanie nodded.
"When did you see him last?"
"Why--er--I'll make a clean breast of it."
"Do so, I beg you."