It had been arranged that the selection of an appropriate bath should be made by Daphne, Jonah, and me. When I came down to breakfast to find that Jonah had already left for Huntercombe, I was more hurt than surprised. But, when Daphne appeared during the marmalade, clad in a new riding-habit, I made haste to empty my mouth. "You can't ride there," I said. "The traffic's too heavy. Besides, the tram-lines--" "You don't want me, old chap," said my sister, stooping to lay her soft cheek against mine, as she passed to her place. I drank some coffee with an injured air. Then: "This," I said, "is low down. Not nice. I don't like it in you. It argues--" "--the confidence we repose in your judgment," said Daphne. "Yes, brother," said Berry, looking up from The Sportsman. "The bath-dressing-gown has fallen upon your rounded shoulders. Ill though it becomes you, I trust that--" "Enough," said I. "Alone I will select a bath. Doubtless you will all deplore my choice as bitterly as you will fight with one another for the privilege of using it. However. When I am dead, you will regret--" "No, we shan't," said my brother-in-law. "We shall just bury you under another name and try to keep the obituary notices out of the papers." I sat back in my chair and frowned. "Be good enough to pass the rolls," said I. "You've only had four," said Berry, pushing them across. "Mind you get a good lunch at Lambeth. I'm told they do you very well at 'The Three Balls.' "When I'm choosing a bath," said I, "I always lunch at 'The Rising Spray.'" And now, here I was, afoot upon Westminster Bridge bound for the warehouse of the firm we proposed to honour with our patronage. I passed on into the roar of the crowded streets, and a quarter of an hour later I reached the place I sought. Almost immediately the office-boy took me for a commercial traveller and refused point-blank to announce my arrival. I told him that I had an appointment. "Yes," he said pleasantly. "They all 'as." "Friend," said I, "I see that you are bent on gaining the feathered fowl. In other words, if I'm kept waiting much longer you'll get the bird." "I don't think," he replied somewhat uneasily. "That," said I, "is what I complain of." I seated myself on a table and lighted a cigarette. Then: "I wonder how he'll like his new place," I said, apostrophizing the skylight. A pause. Then: "Of corse, the guv'nor might be in," said the youth. "Yer never knows." "Speak for yourself," said I. "At the same time, you appear to be doing what you conceive to be your duty. And for those who do their duty, there is always a shilling in the left-hand trouser-pocket--" But the boy was half-way upstairs. I had proved my identity. Five minutes later one of the partners was conducting me in the direction of the baths.