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Next morning Ward was emptying his letter-box as Philip left his rooms to attend a lecture. "Quite a little to-do we had last night, didn't we?" he said, smiling pleasantly. "Decent fellows, all of them you know—horribly tight—but didn't mean any harm. They'll pay for the damage to your pots, of course. You must tell me what it comes to."

"I ought to thank you for clearing them out for me," said Philip, rather nonplussed.

"Oh, not at all—not at all," replied the other, shyly. "You must come to tea with me soon and meet them when they're more—er—more themselves...Really you must."

Soon afterwards Philip accepted a definite invitation, and found Ward's sporting friends genial enough but hardly a type with whom he had much in common. Ward himself, however, he liked immensely, and during their third year the two became great friends.