Barney cut short my being in a chorus; Barney said a chorus girl never learned to pass for a lady.

So I've been working in places where the swellest women come.

First in a milliner shop; then as dresser to a model in the shop of a swell modiste; always watching how the ladies behave.

Now I'm at the Ritzmore, and I carry a tray of cigarettes around the tables at lunch and at tea-time and during dinner and during the after-theater supper.

I'm supposed to be there to sell cigarettes, but I'm really there to watch how the ladies handle their knives and forks and behave toward the men.