"May I be quite frank ?" "Of course," she answered.

"If you really have anything to say to me, I should prefer it." "Then after the oysters I will undertake to be," he declared, smiling.
He turned away to send a boy out for some flowers and order some wine, and afterwards they proceeded with their lunch, talking of the slight things of the moment.

Littleson, in that little group of millionaires, represented youth, and to a certain extent fashion.

He came from one of the better-known families in New York.

He had rooms and connections in London and Paris.