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Updated: June 25, 2025
This is where the floorwalkers learn French." Caroline sat up straight in sudden alertness. "Where's a floorwalker?" she cried. "Show me a floorwalker." This seemed to amuse the party, for they all, including Caroline, burst into renewed laughter. The head-waiter, after a last conscientious but despairing admonition, became Gallic with his shoulders and retired into the background.
So I was forced to content myself with tipping the head-waiter and the vestiaire, the chausseur who opened the door, and the tall commissionnaire who welcomed us upon the pavement and whistled for a petite voiture. "Where to, messieurs?" the man asked, as the carriage drew up. Even then Louis hesitated.
"You will have our best, is it not, Madame la Comtesse?" inquired the man of the hotel, who seemed to be a cross between a manager and a head-waiter, and who swelled with politeness behind a shirt-front that resembled nothing so much as the ten of clubs. "Yes, I was sure of that, gracious madame. You and your suite may assure yourselves that you will be placed in our chambres de luxe."
He surveyed the restaurant with a melancholy eye. 'Everything changed! He spoke sadly, as Ulysses might have done when his boat put in at Ithaca. 'Every darned thing different since I was here last. New waiter, head-waiter I never saw before in my life, different-coloured carpet 'Cheer up, Nutty, old thing! said Miss Leonard. 'You'll feel better when you've had something to eat.
Carl Schultz picked it up, and was about to replace it, when his eyes were held by notes scrawled roughly in pencil. With an expression that no longer was that of a head-waiter, Carl cast one swift glance about him and then slipped into the empty coat-room and locked the door.
Polozov listened to him in silence, his eyes straying from time to time to the door, by which the luncheon was to appear. The luncheon did appear at last. The head-waiter, accompanied by two other attendants, brought in several dishes under silver covers. 'Is the property in the Tula province? said Polozov, seating himself at the table, and tucking a napkin into his shirt collar. 'Yes.
"Bring us a quart of champagne and a a probably ham sandwich." The waiter looked doubtful. "Bring it!" roared Mr. In and Mr. Out in chorus. The waiter coughed and disappeared. There was a short wait during which they were subjected without their knowledge to a careful scrutiny by the head-waiter. Then the champagne arrived, and at the sight of it Mr. In and Mr. Out became jubilant.
"But I never sing out of the theatre, so you mustn't mind if it is not good." The head-waiter played a violent tattoo on the back of the chair in his delight, and balanced and bowed. "Ah, we are very proud and pleased that we can induce Madam to make so great exceptions," he declared. "The committee will be most happy.
Down the set, escorted by a deferential head-waiter, came Muriel Mercer on the arm of a middle-aged man who was elaborately garnished but whose thin dyed mustaches, partially bald head, and heavy eyes, proclaimed him to Merton Gill as one who meant the girl no good. They were followed by the girl who was not so beautiful and the other two men.
At the door they had a bow from the head-waiter, who ran before them and drew out chairs for them at a table, and signaled waiters to serve them, first laying before them with a gracious flourish the bill of fare.
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