Rex Piper said: "Hey, guy, you're embarrassing me. It's not decent."
Mrs. McCullogh, the Y. M. C. A. house mother, stopped in the doorway of the almost empty lounge with a tray of tea and fixings that she was bringing the returning hero. At the sight of said hero, the tray sagged, tilted, and slid to the floor with a fearful crash of samovar, cups, saucers, lady-finger plates, sugar-bowls, cream-pitchers, and teaspoons.
The hero did not even notice.