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Clifford's training stood him in good stead as he watched the new-comers and appeared to study them with mild interest. Just the sort of interest that one would have expected a golfer to regard another who is a stranger to him. All the same, he rather resented the way in which he had been pushed aside by the tall man, though it was no time to show what he was feeling. The tall man leant over the bar and addressed James as if he had been some quite ordinary individual.
"Two stone-gingers and gin," he commanded. "Wake up, barkeeper; don't be all day about it."