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The Prime Minister smiled no more. The wheel which he had jogged so agreeably had come full round, and, in colloquial speech, had biffed him in the eye. He fumbled the papers once more, and frowned. For, consider my own case.
I happen to know Dade Newbert; we were chums. I own up I was surprised when I heard how the Porters had biffed him. Wrote him asking about it. He'd been out the night before the game out with a hot bunch playing poker till daylight.
"'Take 'em out of this, says he. 'Take 'em anywhere, take 'em where you like, Jones, take 'em to hell, but take 'em away, says he. "So I loaded up. Wounded Tommies, gassed Arabs, some women and children, and a few lunatics, genuine cock-eyed loonies from the asylum. The shells chased us out. One biffed us over on to the two rear wheels, but we dropped back on four on the top speed.
So at the station, he wrote saying: I will go on to town I don't want to come back to Breadalby for the present. But it is quite all right I don't want you to mind having biffed me, in the least. Tell the others it is just one of my moods. You were quite right, to biff me because I know you wanted to. So there's the end of it. In the train, however, he felt ill.
With which words he biffed off; and I, having given him a minute or two to get out of the way, rose and made for the drawing-room. The tendency of females to roost in drawing-rooms after dinner being well marked, I expected to find Angela there. It was my intention to have a word with Angela.
Mason looks at his watch, and says 'I'm sorry, Freddie, but I find I've an engagement for lunch. So long! and biffed out, without apparently knowing Derek was on the earth. I mean . . ." Freddie reached for his glass, "What I mean is, it was dashed embarrassing. I mean, cutting a fellow dead in my rooms. I don't know when I've felt so rotten!" Algy Martyn delivered judgment with great firmness.
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