Breitmann was prompt.

In evening clothes there was something distinctive about the man.

Fitzgerald, who was himself a wide traveler and a man of the world, instantly saw and was agreeably surprised that he had asked a gentleman to dine.

Fitzgerald was no cad; he would have been just as much interested in Breitmann had he arrived in a cutaway sack.

But chance acquaintances, as a rule, are rudimental experiments.
They sat down.