"I've really been a business man to-day, Captain.

Worked like the devil--or an angel--whichever works the harder." He lit a cigarette and settled with a sigh on the corner of Larry's desk.

Larry regarded him with a stranger and more contradicting mixture of feelings than he had ever thought to contain: solicitude for Dick--jealousy of him--and the instinct to protect Maggie.

This last seemed to Larry grotesquely absurd the instant it seethed up in him, but there the instinct was: was Dick treating Maggie right?
"How was the show last night, Dick ?" "Punk!" "I thought you said you were to see 'The Jest.' I've heard it's one of the best things for years." "Oh, I guess the show's all right.

But the company was poor.