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With the remark that he had to go to his good lady or his good lady would have to come to him, Julius had taken his departure in a motor ambulance. He could as well have gone by taxi, but he expressed a preference for an ambulance. "One with a red cross," he suggested. Diana had 'phoned a garage, and Julius Superbus made his exit dramatically, covered with blankets, flat on a stretcher, and smiling the smile of one who was not long for this world but wasn't afraid to go.
"And what my missus will say when I come home short, I shudder to think," he said pathetically. "I don't know: the only satisfaction I've got is that it was done on dooty."