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ALL’S WELLI stared at him. That flower in his buttonhole … That dazed look Yes, he had all the symptoms: and yet the thing seemed incredible. The fact is, I suppose, I’d seen so many of young Bingo’s love affairs start off with a whoop and a rattle and poof themselves out half-way down the straight that I couldn’t believe he had actually brought it off at last. ‘Married!’
‘Yes. This morning at a registrar’s in Holborn. I’ve just come from the wedding breakfast.’
I sat up in my chair. Alert. The man of affairs. It seemed to me that this thing wanted threshing out in all its aspects.
‘Let’s get this straight,’ I said. ‘You’re really married?’
‘The same girl you were in love with the day before yesterday?’
‘What do you mean?’
‘Well, you know what you’re like. Tell me, what made you
