And I began to find something real." Another pause, a long one.
"I had quite a struggle after that.

I was all hemmed in--" she stopped again--"by the city I found when I first arrived.

But I huffed and I puffed and I hunted about--and at last I discovered our New York--the town we girls used to dream about at home in all those talks we had! Oh, I don't mean I have found it yet--but I've felt it, though, and had one good look.

I dined with some people.

How silly that sounds.