Humel sneered.
"Oh, really, nothing pleases that chap!"
I continued:
"It's all very well, but who knows what's happening elsewhere?"
"And what's happening in Timbuctoo?"
"Round about Nancy? And in the North?"
Guillaumin laughed:
"Dreher will have it that we can't be equally lucky everywhere!"
Henriot roared with laughter!
"Oh rot, they're in the soup!"