"I suppose I was thinking that some time we might help along.

If we were to have those sketches of yours about life in every part of New York--" March's authorial vanity was tickled.

"Fulkerson has been talking to you about them?
He seemed to think they would be a card.

He believes that there's no subject so fascinating to the general average of people throughout the country as life in New York City; and he liked my notion of doing these things." March hoped that Dryfoos would answer that Fulkerson was perfectly enthusiastic about his notion; but he did not need this stimulus, and, at any rate, he went on without it.

"The fact is, it's something that struck my fancy the moment I came here; I found myself intensely interested in the place, and I began to make notes, consciously and unconsciously, at once.