Chris laughed, and it was Marie who explained.
"It's a slang word for dissipation. Aunt Madge."
Miss Chester said "Oh!" in a rather shocked voice, adding slowly, "I should not have thought Mr. Dakers a dissipated man."
"Nor I," said Marie.
"You don't know him as well as I do." Chris said. "And, by the way, 188 I'm golfing with him on Sunday."
Marie looked up.
"To lunch at the Load of Hay?" she asked quietly.
Chris raised amazed eyebrows.
"How ever did you know?"
"I went there with him once. We motored out, and Mrs. Costin gave us lunch."