He hung about outside the baths till Phipps and Thomas appeared, then, with a steadfast expression on his face, he walked up to the latter and kicked him.
Thomas seemed surprised, but not alarmed. His eyes grew a little rounder, and the pink on his cheeks deepened. He looked like a choir-boy in a bad temper.
"Hullo! What's up, you ass, Spencer?" inquired Phipps.
Spencer said nothing.
"Where shall we go?" asked Thomas.
"Oh, chuck it!" said Phipps the peacemaker.
Spencer and Thomas were eyeing each other warily.
"You chaps aren't going to fight?" said Phipps.
The notion seemed to distress him.
"Unless he cares to take a kicking," said Spencer suavely.