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Arthur Woodroffe's true defence of his action in leaving Peckham did not occur to him until after he had parted with Somers.
In the course of the ten days that had passed since his sudden arrival at a decision, he had fallen into a perfect intoxication of spending. In that time he had spent over two hundred pounds.