and Jennifers. But t students clustered safely at to giggle. tiged teddy girls dropped ty; like valkyries ttle, cers on. ted faces flickered in and out of t t trickled the public bar.

    No aside top s, truments and trality. Simeon saain in termittent ligalian youte lapels and sil th gaped open, howling.

    quot;Not ever ; t exclaiming in an apologetic frenzy. terings and trembling. Simeon took o te bar to sootch.

    quot;Quite like t famous,quot; panted Nelson, defending the microphone.

    But it  tied like a bat. ttle exclamations of triumphe room.

    quot;ould I be suco call t; demanded Simeon rorically. So t for a drink.

    quot;; said someone later, quot;;

    quot;Not since ts  out.quot;

    quot;ell,  matter? Im going to bed,quot; said Simeon. quot;Ive a dreadful cold coming, I feel it. Not t going to bed s are . . .quot;

    t about Jameson until very mucer, o bed. Geoff and Nelson, decently o go and  took a lig into t  all ttered glass and broken co the floor.

    Sobered at once, Geoff climbed on to tage and poked anxiously among truments remaining. Miraculously, ts accessories  a casualty on terrible t  a nut-coloured firewood.

    quot;O,quot; artled at tone of t;Jameson, o tell Jameson, Len? ;

    tood toget Lolas patic fragmented corpse. Botoucitious sorro go into public bars ers.

    quot;Do you kno seem rigo talk in a loud voice.

    quot;I  seen rouble began.quot;

    quot;Even if  to  of company, at a time