Ten minutes after Fred met a man he generally told him.
When Fred arranged an alliance with Winnie Platt, who also was of the innermost inner set of Keepsburg, everybody said Keepsburg would soon lose them.

And everybody was right.

When single, each had sighed for other social worlds to conquer, and when they combined their fortunes and ambitions they found Keepsburg impossible, and they left it to lay siege to New York.

They were too crafty to at once attack New York itself.

A widow lady they met while on their honeymoon at Palm Beach had told them not to attempt that.