Happily Van Alstyne prided himself on his summing up of social aspects, and with Selden for audience was eager to show the sureness of his touch.

Mrs.
Fisher lived in an East side street near the Park, and as the two men walked down Fifth Avenue the new architectural developments of that versatile thoroughfare invited Van Alstyne's comment.
"That Greiner house, now--a typical rung in the social ladder! The man who built it came from a MILIEU where all the dishes are put on the table at once.

His facade is a complete architectural meal; if he had omitted a style his friends might have thought the money had given out.

Not a bad purchase for Rosedale, though: attracts attention, and awes the Western sight-seer.

By and bye he'll get out of that phase, and want something that the crowd will pass and the few pause before.