"Hello, Tom."
"Hello, Joe; hello, Dink."
"Tough about Dudley, isn't it?"
"How so?"
"Why, missing out!"
"Perhaps it's Bones's loss," said Regan grimly. "Dudley's all right. He's lucky. He's ten times the man he was this morning."
Neither Hungerford nor Stover answered.
"What do you think of it—Tap Day?" said Hungerford, after a moment.
"The best thing in the whole society system," said Regan, with extra warmth.
"Well, I'll be darned!" said Stover, in genuine surprise. "I thought you'd be for abolishing it."