"Well, you are; I wish you weren＇t. But I suppose you can＇t help it."
"I might try: that＇s an idea," said the young man.
"Were you ever sick, Lord Warburton?" his father asked.
Lord Warburton considered a moment. "Yes, sir,once, in the Persian Gulf."
"He＇s making light of you, daddy," said the other young man. "That＇s a sort of joke."
"Well, there seem to be so many sorts now," daddy replied, serenely. "You don＇t look as if you had been sick, anyway, Lord Warburton."