Twentieth Century habit they're as good as lost. How's the
infants' wear business, Fanny?"

"Booming, thank you. I want to tell you I've read the
column every day. It's wonderful stuff."

"It's a wonderful job. I'm a lucky boy. I'm doing the
thing I'd rather do than anything else in the world. There
are mighty few who can say that." There was another
silence, awkward, heavy. Then, "Fanny, you're not really
leaving to-day?"

"I'll be in Chicago to-morrow, barring wrecks."

"You might have let me show you our more or less fair city."

"I've shown it to myself. I've seen Riverside Drive at
sunset, and at night. That alone would have been enough.
But I've seen Fulton market, too, and the Grand street
stalls, and Washington Square, and Central Park, and Lady
Duff-Gordon's inner showroom, and the Night Court, and the
Grand Central subway horror at six p. m., and the gambling
on the Curb, and the bench sleepers in Madison Square-- Oh,
Clancy, the misery----"

"Heh, wait a minute! All this, alone?"

"Yes. And one more thing. I've landed Horn & Udell, which
means nothing to you, but to me it means that by Spring my
department will be a credit to its stepmother; a real