Why, if I drop into the Magnolia on my way up-town and forget to wear a derby hat with a sack coat, or a black tie with a dinner-jacket, everybody winks and nudges his neighbor.

Did you ever hear of such nonsense in your life ?" The boy paused as if the memory of some incident in which he was ridiculed was alive in his mind.

Peter's eyes were still fixed on his face.
"Go on--I'm listening; and what else hurts you?
Pour it all out.

That's what I came for.

You said last night nobody would listen--I will." "Well, then, I hate the sham of it all; the silly social distinctions; the fits and starts of hospitality; the dinners given for show.