three in the morning
and Rosario clinked with me . And Strobo played wailing Hungarian airs with sudden little shakes of hopeless laughter in them . I can not even now hear Naches without being filled with the recollection of how certain bare branches in me that night blossomed . I walked alone down the hill and along the three miles to the Club , and at every step the tide sank in me till it cast me on my threshold at three in the morning , just the middle-aged shell of a Secretary to the Government of India that I was when I set forth . Next day when my head clerk brought me the files we avoided one another 's glances ; and it was quite three weeks before I could bring myself to address him with the dignity and distance prescribed for his station as ` Mr. ' Rosario . I went of course to Calcutta for the four winter months . Harris and I were together at the Club .