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Or it might have been the reaction from the emotions of the previous night . On the morning after an opening your sensitive artist is always apt to feel as if he had been dried over a barrel . Besides , last night there had been a supper party after the performance at the flat which the comedian of the troupe had rented in Jermyn Street , a forced , rowdy supper party where a number of tired people with over-strained nerves had seemed to feel it a duty to be artificially vivacious . It had lasted till four o'clock when the morning papers with the notices arrived , and George had not got to bed till four-thirty . These things colour the mental outlook . Mac reappeared . `` Here you are , sir . ''