Vandover had Ellis and the Dummy to lunch with him at the hotel, where they arranged the menu of a famous Thanksgiving dinner for that evening: they would meet in one of the little rooms of the Imperial and go from there to the restaurant.

As they were finishing their lunch Vandover said: "I got a new kind of liqueur yesterday--has a colour like violets and smells like cologne.

You fellows better come up to my room and try it.
I've got to go up and change anyway, if I go out to that game." They all went up to Vandover's cheerless room, and Ellis began to argue with Vandover against the folly of going anywhere in the rain.
"_You_ don't want to go to that game, Van.

Just look how it's raining.
I'll bet there won't be a thousand people there.

They'll probably postpone the game anyway.