“You forget I wasn’t in the cupboard,” said Jimmy. “And anyway I’d rather not argue with Bill about his lady friend’s mole. But surely he can’t be such an ass as not to see that everything fits in?”

“He’s every kind of ass,” said Bundle bitterly. “You made the greatest mistake, Jimmy, in ever telling him at all.”

“I’m sorry,” said Jimmy. “I didn’t see it at the time⁠—but I do now. I was a fool, but dash it all, old Bill⁠—”

“You know what foreign adventuresses are,” said Bundle. “How they get hold of one.”

“As a matter of fact, I don’t,” said Jimmy. “One has never tried to get hold of me.” And he sighed.

For a moment or two there was silence. Jimmy was turning things over in his mind. The more he thought about them the more unsatisfactory they seemed.