Waiters were required to be gymnasts to slide between them and avoid an accident.

Palgrave ordered without any hesitation, like a newspaper man finding his way through a daily paper.
"How do you like it ?" he said.
Joan looked about her.

Mostly the tables were occupied by a man and a woman, but at a few were four and six of both in equal numbers, and here and there parties of men.

At one or two, women with eccentric heads sat together in curious garments which had the appearance of being made at home on the spur of the moment.

They smoked between mouthfuls and laughed without restraint.