So the Chapmans resolved to go into the city and set up for very respectable people.

As nobody wanted the big house for a church Chapman rented it to Titus Bright for an inn, and as nothing was said about moral restrictions, that worthy friend of the thirsty and weary traveller kept it in the good old-fashioned way of giving customers what they wanted and asking no questions.

He would much rather, Chapman said, have seen it put to a less profane use, but as Bright was a responsible tenant, and could pay more rent than any one else, the morality had to sink in the necessity.
A few months passed and the Chapmans were set up in New York, in a spacious and well-furnished house on the east side of Bowling Green.
Chapman was soon busy looking after the affairs of the great firm of Topman and Gusher, which I need scarcely tell the reader was a creation of his.

Mrs.Chapman soon had enough to do at pushing her way into society.

But the more she pushed the more did little social obstructions seem to rise up and defeat her efforts.