In his mind's eye he had a disgustingly clear image of the solemn, earnest face of young Bates.
II
II
Arthur Woodroffe's true defence of his action in leaving Peckham did not occur to him until after he had parted with Somers.
In the course of the ten days that had passed since his sudden arrival at a decision, he had fallen into a perfect intoxication of spending. In that time he had spent over two hundred pounds.
And with that expenditure he had broken another habit of thought. His early life had always been overshadowed by the cares and threats of respectable poverty, and when his last financial responsibility had been closed by his mother's death, eighteen months earlier, he had continued to save money, with the prudent thought that he might presently need capital.