“I am not,” I confessed. “Your story, Doctor, makes me wonder whether it
may not have been due to something else.”
“What else can it have been due to?” exclaimed Jennings
contemptuously--“unless to the champagne?”
“I won't quote Shakespeare,” said Dr. Matheson, smiling in his odd way.
“The famous lines, though appropriate, are somewhat overworked. But I
will quote Kipling: 'East is East, and West is West.'”