Chapter 60

He went on speaking for some time, holding his glass suspended in the air--a priceless little glass filled with a wine which his guests understood was priceless also, as such wines are rated. His praise of Doctor Chase was extreme and so nearly fulsome that its subject felt himself for once thankful to be behind the dark glasses which were a screen for his eyes, and wishing ardently that the glasses might temporarily be enlarged to cover his whole face. What had happened to him, he wondered, that such words--he had…