At the next corner two society flash-lights flopped in and sat next to
me.

They had a lot of words they wanted to use and they started in.

The car stopped and two more of the 400's leading ladies jumped the
hurdles and came down the aisle.

They sat on the other side of me.

In a minute they began to bite the dictionary.

Their efforts aroused the energies of three women who sat opposite me,
and _they_ proceeded to beat the English language black and blue.

In a minute the air was so full of talk that the grip germs had to pull
out on the platform and chew the conductor.

The next one to me on my left started in:

"Oh, yes; we discharged our cook day before yesterday, but there's
another coming this evening, and so--"

Her friend broke away and was up and back to the center with this:

"I was coming down Broadway this morning and I saw Julia Marlowe's
leading man. I'm sure it was him, because I saw the show once in Chicago
and he has the loveliest eyes I ever looked at!"