When the Board was over, he also went down to the Beargarden. Perhaps, with reference to the Board, the feeling which hurt him most was the conviction that he was spending money which he would never have had to spend had there been no Board. He had been twitted with this at the Board-meeting, and had justified himself by referring to the money which had been invested in the Company of Fisker, Montague, and Montague, which money was now supposed to have been made over to the railway. But the money which he was spending had come to him after a loose fashion, and he knew that if called upon for an account, he could hardly make out one which would be square and intelligible to all parties. Nevertheless he spent much of his time at the Beargarden, dining there when no engagement carried him elsewhere. On this evening he joined his table with Nidderdale's, at the young lord's instigation. "What made you so savage at old Melmotte to-day?" said the young lord.
"I didn't mean to be savage, but I think that as we call ourselves Directors we ought to know something about it."

When the Board was over, he went down to the Beargarden, where he often dined. This evening he sat with Nidderdale, at the young lord's instigation.
"What made you so savage at old Melmotte today?" said Nidderdale.
"I didn't mean to be savage, but I think that as Directors we ought to know something about it."
