“I think champagne would be appropriate,” Trevor replied.
“I’m much obliged to you,” George Edwardes answered, “you have done me a good turn and no mistake. I was dreading having to tell ‘his Nibs’ that Lucy was still hors de combat.”
“Is she still bad?” Trevor asked.
“I enquired at luncheontime,” George Edwardes replied, “and her temperature was one hundred and three degrees! If you ask me, she’ll be out of the show for at least a week.”
“I suppose it is that fever that has been going around,” Trevor remarked.
Because Angela knew him so well, she knew that he was really delighted that there was no chance of Lucy returning unexpectedly.
He would therefore not lose the money that George Edwardes had promised him.
A bottle of champagne was produced and George Edwardes poured out three
