"How perfectly, perfectly sweet! And may we, oh, may we have a lobster mayonnaise for dinner?"
CHAPTER V
"FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE WAS GOING TO HAVE A GIRL FRIEND"
"Across the hills, and far away
Beyond their utmost purple rim,
And deep into the dying day
The happy princess followed him."
—Tennyson.
Lothian went back to his club in a taxi-cab, telling the man to drive at top speed. On the way he ordered a motor-car to go to Brighton and to call for him within twenty minutes.