"I say, Max, what a humbug I must have looked! But I am ever so much
better. I hope old Curzon will come and fish next year."
While down-stairs his father was angrily walking up and down his study.
"As many days as he likes for the rest of his life!" he exclaimed
fiercely. "Idiot--ass that I have been, and that I am, to offer that
which at any hour may belong to some one else."
"Well," he added, after a pause, "folly receives its punishments, and
the greatest of all follies is to game."