The bar didn't close until midnight because people came to drink while they were ___21___ for trains. So the business was good.At two o'clock one morning, a man was ___22___ sitting at the table in the bar. He was sleeping. Mr Brown's young wife wanted to go to ___23___. She looked around the bar several times, but the man kept sleeping. Then at last she went to her husband and said to him, “You have tried to wake that man several times, and he isn't drinking anything. Why haven't you sent him away? It's too ___24___.”“Oh, no, I don't want to send him away,” he answered ___25___ a smile. “You know, each time I woke him up, he gave me five pounds. Then he went to sleep again.”

A. late

B. waiting

C. with

D. still

E. bed

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