"You don't come here often, do you?" said the latter.
Clive said he didn't.
"Neither do I. But when I do there's a few doing. Will you have a high one, Clive? In deference to our late and revered university?"
Clive would so far consent to degrade himself for the honour of Alma Mater.
There was much honour done her that evening.
Toward the beginning of the end Clive said: "I can't sit up all night, Cecil. What do you do for a living, anyway?"
"Bank a bit."
"It was in this place that Clive encountered Cecil Reeve one stormy midnight."