A little dinner wouldn't make a big talk, and what we want is the big talk, at present, if we don't lay up a cent.

My notion was that pretty soon after Lent, now, when everybody is feeling just right, we should begin to send out our paragraphs, affirmative, negative, and explanatory, and along about the first of May we should sit down about a hundred strong, the most distinguished people in the country, and solemnize our triumph.

There it is in a nutshell.

I might expand and I might expound, but that's the sum and substance of it." Fulkerson stopped, and ran his eyes eagerly over the faces of his three listeners, one after the other.

March was a little surprised when Dryfoos turned to him, but that reference of the question seemed to give Fulkerson particular pleasure: "What do you think, Mr.March ?" The editor leaned back in his chair.