It must be a sad thing not to be able to eat lobster and ice-cream together, and to have to say "No" to broiled mushrooms, and not to dare to eat Welsh-rarebits after the theatre, and to have to lock up your chafing-dish.

Mr. Fotheringay helped himself to a second Welsh rarebit out of vacancy, and took a mouthful.

Dwight Herbert savoured his rarebit with a great show of long wrinkled dimples.