Well! that was a funny ending to my first day ashore, if you like,
though so long as Gerald got clear away I didn't mind, and so long as
Bob and his chum had fetched up at the Club I knew that things would
turn out all right.
It was jolly hot in that hole of a place, and as the afternoon went on
the sun shone straight in through the gratings of the door and it was
like an oven.