Suddenly there came swelling up a deep-voiced, rollicking chorus from somewhere out of the darkness.

Desmond watched the jolly crew as they turned into the Minories, and heard their rollicking chorus:

Several blocks away, a crowd of students crossing the campus in the moonlight started a rollicking chorus.

Somewhere above he heard a piano played with brilliancy and dash, and the rollicking chorus of the college song:-

Which assertion was proved to be false by the agility with which the "little man" danced a jig in time to the rollicking chorus: