"Just like old Bob!" he said to himself. "Two months’ leave!  And instead of playing the giddy goat, as any sensible fellow would do in his place, he feels he must make up for lost time and swot away at his old inventions.  With a good balance at Cox’s, too.  Aunt Caroline says she quite approves of his spending his money in preparation for his career—just the sort of thing she would say!  Well, I’ll look him up, the old juggins, first leave I have!"