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THERE was to be a breaking up at the Hut. The three had abandoned their tenancy, Jan Strikowski saw the prospect of a visit to his native Poland about to be realised; Fryer perceived that two or three years' study in Paris was not only a possibility, but might be regarded as Sybaritish luxury; and Inglis knew that all one might reasonably desire in London might easily be his.
The farewell to their old haunt was signalised by a big night. All the old friends were invited: Nancy Inglis, Jimmie's sister, and her student friends, Halliday, Greenway, O'Malley, even Jess and Jollie were not forgotten. The party was to have been very much in the old vein, but when you are comparatively rich you cannot do these things so well; however good your intentions the influence of affluence will creep in to mar the fine, free, careless rapture.