They were face to face with their pet uncle--their Uncle Reginald.
"The people with what I call Tauchnitz morals," observed Reginald.
But that, my dear Reginald, becomes more difficult as one grows older."
"Someone has observed that Providence is always on the side of the big dividends," remarked Reginald.
"A scandal, my dear Reginald, is as much to be avoided at Monaco or any of those places as at Exeter, let us say."
During the brief interval of each day in which he was sober, Sir Reginald Eversleigh was wont to reflect upon the past.
Amongst those who envied Lady Eversleigh's good fortune, there was none whose envy was so bitter as that of her husband's disappointed nephew, Sir Reginald.