And he would have missed her from the house as he would have missed Fifth Avenue if it had been dropped from the city.

For the picture Roger had formed of this daughter was more of a symbol than of a girl, a symbol of the ardent town, spending, wasting, dancing mad.

It was Laura who had kept him living right up to his income.
"Where are you dining to-night ?" he asked.
"With the Raymonds." He wondered who they were.

"Oh, Sarah," she added to the maid.

"Call up Mrs.Raymond's apartment and ask what time is dinner to-night." "Are you going to dance later on ?" he inquired.
"Oh, I guess so," she replied.