No, this day needed a good deal of digesting, and a good deal of alcohol to assist with the process. He headed out to Powell’s immediately following dinner.
“Colburne, Warwick, I’m surprised to see you both here,” he said, after discovering his two closest friends in the reading room of the club. They were sitting in the corner, holding a quiet conversation when Paul joined them.
“Ha! Saint, what are you doing here?” Warwick said, looking up at him.
“Not out wooing Miss Kendrick at some gathering this evening?” Colburne asked with a broad smile.
“No,” Paul said with a sigh and sat down to join them. “It is because of her that I am here and in desperate need of a drink.”
“Uh-oh. Is all not well in that quarter?” Warwick asked, drawing his eyebrows down and looking concerned.
Paul shoo
