--See the
hand-out he gave me for last Sunday--full-page interview: 'Earl of
Strathay Discusses American Society?'
"Some English won't stand for anything but a regular pie-faced story, but
Strathay's a real good little man."
"You said he had sixty-nine pairs of shoes," said Kitty reminiscently.
"No; twenty-nine."
"What's His Lordlets doing in New York?" inquired Pros., who was there as
usual, a queer and quiet wooer.
"Tinting the town a chaste and delicate pink, assisted and chaperoned by
his cousin, the Hon. Stephen Allardyce Poultney. Ugh! Glad the _Star_
doesn't want an interview with _His_ Geniality; don't like S.A.P.
Esq.," said Cadge energetically. "But, Helen, now you've got people where
you want 'em, you play your own hand. You don't want any Van Dam for a
bear leader. That crowd's been working every fetch there is to get in with
the top notchers, and they just couldn't. Knowing you is worth more to
them than endowing a hospital. You're a social bonanza."
Perhaps I shouldn't have let her talk so about Meg, but, after all, she
told me nothing new.
"Did I send you a marked paper with the paragraph I wrote about the
important 'ological experiments you couldn't leave, even for the 'land of
the lily and the rose?'" she proceeded.
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