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Updated: May 31, 2025
"If you want the truth, Thoburn is going to have a party a forbidden feast. He's going to rouse again the sleeping dogs of appetite, and send them ravening back to the Plaza, to Sherry's and Del's and the little Italian restaurants on Sixth Avenue.
"Even Madelene," thought she, "who has not a glance for other people's affairs, knows how it is between Dory and me." It was Madelene's turn to be repentant and apologetic. "I didn't mean quite that," she stammered. "Of course I know you care for Dory " The tears came to Del's eyes and the high color to her cheeks. "You needn't make excuses," she cried. "It's the truth. I don't care in that way."
I don't consider that I've the right to ask more. You see, I shouldn't have married him ... even though he understood that I wasn't really in love with him. We're friends; and we're going to remain friends. Just that. Del's a good sort," she added with a hint of pleading the cause of a misunderstood person. "He'd give me my divorce in a minute; even though he still cares in his way.
Frona broke in, pointing to the tip of an amber mouth-piece which projected from Vance's outside breast-pocket. "A pipe! My congratulations." She held out her hand and he shook good-humoredly. "All Del's fault," he laughed. "When I go before the great white throne, it is he who shall stand forth and be responsible for that particular sin." "An improvement, nevertheless," she argued.
She had realized from the beginning of the conversation that Del's nerves were on edge; her color, alternately rising and fading, and her eyes, now sparkling now dull, could only mean fever from a tempest of secret emotion. "He and I usually agree simply because we see things in about the same light." "You furnish the light," teased Adelaide.
In this case of yours everything will come round quite smooth, if you don't get hysterical and if Ross Whitney is really in earnest and not" Madelene's tone grew even more deliberate "not merely getting up a theatrical romance along the lines of the 'high-life' novels you idle people set such store by." She saw, in Del's wincing, that the shot had landed.
He wished to pass on, but was detained by some suggestion in Ross's manner that he had not yet discharged his mind of its real burden. "I was glad to see your mother so well," said Ross. "I wish she were," replied Arthur. "She seemed to be better while the excitement about Del's wedding was on; but as soon as Del and Dory went, she dropped back again.
Old-time patrons of the Fourteenth Street corner will tell you that such a reply might have fittingly come from the maître d'hôtel of the "Del's" that was. But conceding the quality of the everyday service there were famous dinners that have stood out in the annals of the house. Here, for example, is the menu of what was known as the "Swan Dinner" held the evening of February 17, 1873.
"I've been to Chicago to see about contesting the will," he began, deciding for the rehearsal. "I supposed so," said Hargrave. "Of course, for mother's and Del's sake I simply have to do it," he went on, much encouraged. "Anyone who knew father knows he must have been out of his mind when he made that will." "I see your point of view," said Dory, embarrassed.
For, whatever footlights shone in the City-That-Would-Be-Amused, the freedom of their unshaded side was Del's. And if he should take up an amateur see? and bring him around see? and, winking one of his cold blue eyes, say to the manager: "Take it from me he's got the goods see?" you wouldn't expect that amateur to sit on an unpainted bench sudorifically awaiting his turn, would you?
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