He answered: "You can meet the people I'm talking of very easily, if you want to take the trouble.

It's what they came to New York for.

I fancy it's the great ambition of their lives to be met." "Oh yes," said Miss Vance, fashionably, and looked down; then she looked up and said, intellectually: "Don't you think it's a great pity?
How much better for them to have stayed where they were and what they were!" "Then you could never have had any chance of meeting them," said Beaton.
"I don't suppose you intend to go out to the gas country ?" "No," said Miss Vance, amused.

"Not that I shouldn't like to go." "What a daring spirit! You ought to be on the staff of 'Every Other Week,'" said Beaton.
"The staff-Every Other Week?
What is it ?" "The missing link; the long-felt want of a tie between the Arts and the Dollars." Beaton gave her a very picturesque, a very dramatic sketch of the theory, the purpose, and the personnel of the new enterprise.
Miss Vance understood too little about business of any kind to know how it differed from other enterprises of its sort.

She thought it was delightful; she thought Beaton must be glad to be part of it, though he had represented himself so bored, so injured, by Fulkerson's insisting upon having him.