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-LRB- I had no doubt of his approval . -RRB- In London , I should renew relations with the real Trewlove -- the familiar , the absurd . I will not swear that for the moment I thought of Trewlove at all : but he remained at the back of my mind , and at Calais I began the process of precipitating him -LRB- so to speak -RRB- by a telegram advertising him of my return , and requesting that my room might be prepared . I had missed the midday boat , and reached Dover by the later and slower one as the June night began to descend . From Victoria I drove straight to my club , and snatched a supper of cold meats in its half-lit dining-room . Twenty minutes later I was in my hansom again and swiftly bowling westward -- I say ` bowling ' because it is the usual word , and I was in far too fierce a hurry to think of a better . I had dropped back upon London in the fastest whirl of the season , and at the hour when all the world rolls homeward from the theatres .