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'Didn't you have a row in the street with some one the other day? This question was asked very abruptly by Lord Grasslough, who, though he was sitting near them, had not yet joined in the conversation, and who had not before addressed a word to Sir Felix. 'We heard something about it, but we never got the right story. Nidderdale glanced across the table at Dolly, and Dolly whistled.
When Lord Grasslough, with a dark scowl on his face, expressed his opinion that it was not just the thing for men to break up like that when so much money had been lost, Dolly as willingly sat down again. But Dolly's sitting down was not sufficient. 'I'm going to hunt to-morrow, said Sir Felix meaning that day, 'and I shall play no more. A man must go to bed at some time.
'Of course, if there is to be a fight, I'm good to go out with anybody, said Dolly. 'When there's any beastly thing to be done, I've always got to do it. But don't you think that kind of thing is a little slow? 'Who began it? said Sir Felix, sitting down again. Whereupon Lord Grasslough, who had finished his dinner, walked out of the room. 'That fellow is always wanting to quarrel.
I write such a beastly hand that I never know whether I've written it or not. But, by George, a fellow can't eat and drink £1,500 in less than six months! 'There's no knowing what you can do, Dolly, said Lord Grasslough. 'He's paid some of your card money, perhaps, said Nidderdale. 'I don't think he ever did.
But there had been no cessation of gambling since the cards had first been opened about ten o'clock. At four in the morning Dolly Longestaffe was certainly in a condition to lend his horses and to remember nothing about it. He was quite affectionate with Lord Grasslough, as he was also with his other companions, affection being the normal state of his mind when in that condition.
'Why not? why should you want to see me? I'll go to bed now. There'll be plenty of time by-and-by. 'Is anything the matter, Felix? 'Matter, what should be the matter? There's been a gentle row among the fellows at the club; that's all. I had to tell Grasslough a bit of my mind, and he didn't like it. I didn't mean that he should. 'There is not going to be any fighting, Felix?
He was sure that Grasslough would go to the club after the ball, and he was determined that they should not think that he had submitted to be carried home by his mother and sister.
'By George, it's hardly worth having if one is to take all this trouble about it, Dolly had said to Lord Grasslough, with whom he had fraternised since the quarrel with Nidderdale. Dolly entered the room last, and at that time neither Mr Longestaffe nor Mr Bideawhile had touched the drawer, or even the table, in which the letter had been deposited.
Though Grasslough talked openly enough about Melmotte in the smoking-room Miles Grendall said never a word. On the next day, early in the afternoon, almost without a fixed purpose, Montague strolled up to Welbeck Street, and found Hetta alone. 'Mamma has gone to her publisher's, she said. 'She is writing so much now that she is always going there.
One day, before the Whitstable marriage, when it was understood that the club would actually be closed on the 12th August unless some new heaven-inspired idea might be forthcoming for its salvation, Nidderdale, Grasslough, and Dolly were hanging about the hall and the steps, and drinking sherry and bitters preparatory to dinner, when Sir Felix Carbury came round the neighbouring corner and, in a creeping, hesitating fashion, entered the hall door.
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