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Updated: May 16, 2025
"You can come in," she said. "Pa won't be home to lunch to-day and ma lets me do as I please." The Gansers lived in East Eighty-first Street, in the regulation twenty-five-foot brownstone house. And within, also, it was of a familiar New York type. It was the home of the rich, vain ignoramus who has not taste enough to know that those to whom he has trusted for taste have shockingly betrayed him.
After supper the Gansers still had supper in the evening, their fashionable progress in that direction having reached only the stage at which dinner is called luncheon he put Lena into the carriage and they drove to Avenue A. On the way he told her exactly what to say and do. He stayed in the carriage. "Be quick," he said, "and no foolishness!"
"If you had only sent word, dear," she said reproachfully, "I would have come. Oh I do love you so, Carl! I could hardly eat or sleep and " "The truth would have been worse than silence," he said in a hollow voice. He did not intend the double meaning of his remark; the Gansers were for the moment out of his mind, which was absorbed in his acting.
She showed at a glance that she was a silly, vain girl. Her face was fat and dull; she had thin, stringy hair. She was flabby and, in the lazy life to which the Gansers' wealth and the silly customs of prosperous people condemned her, was already beginning to expand in the places where she could least afford it. He made amorous eyes at her. He laughed enthusiastically at her foolish speeches.
The results were even more regardless of taste than of expense carpets that fought with curtains, pictures that quarreled with their frames and with the walls, upholstery so bellicose that it seemed perilous to sit upon. But Feuerstein was as impressed as the Gansers had been the first time they beheld the gorgeousness of their palace.
His real reason was his hopes from the reports on Feuerstein's past, which his detective would make. But he thought it was not necessary to tell Beck about the detective. After another talk with Travis, Feuerstein decided that he must give up Hilda entirely until this affair with the Gansers was settled. Afterward well, there would be time to decide when he had his five thousand.
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