"I hope to goodness it'll be smooth all the way over," he said to himself.
THE THIRD CHAPTER
1
Roger Carey and Gilbert Farlow met him at Euston.
"Hilloa, Quinny!" Gilbert said, "I've been made a dramatic critic, and I'm to do my first play to-night!"
"Hurray!" he answered, and turned to greet Roger.
"We've bagged a taxi," Gilbert went on. "The driver looks cheeky ... that's why we hired him. We'll give him a tuppenny tip and then we'll give him in charge!..."
"All taxi drivers are cheeky," Roger interrupted.
"But this is a very cheeky one!... Hi, porter!"