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As she passed McKann, she again brushed lightly against him, and this time she paused long enough to glance down at him and murmur, "Pardon!" In the moment her bright, curious eyes rested upon him, McKann seemed to see himself as if she were holding a mirror up before him.

"Monsieur did not look like an original," murmured Céline, as she began to take down her lady's hair. McKann slept heavily, as usual, and the porter had to shake him in the morning. He sat up in his berth, and, after composing his hair with his fingers, began to hunt about for his clothes.

Her last smile was for that uncomfortable part of her audience seated behind her, and she looked with recognition at McKann and his ladies as she nodded good night to the wooden chairs. McKann hurried his charges into the foyer by the nearest exit and put them into his motor. Then he went over to the Schenley to have a glass of beer and a rarebit before train-time.

Hunter for a time, for she remembered her as, in their school days, the socially obscure Lidie McKann; now, however, her husband turning all he touched to gold, she had, incredibly, become one of the most important women in San Francisco and Burlingame.

She moved deliberately; out of a whirl of skirts she thrust one fur-topped shoe McKann saw the flash of the gold stocking above it and alighted. "So kind of you! So fortunate for us!" she murmured. One hand she placed upon his sleeve, and in the other she carried an armful of roses that had been sent up to the concert stage.

He needn't dress, and he could take a taxi from the concert-hall to the East Liberty station. The outcome of it all was that, though his bag was at the station, here was McKann, in the worst possible humour, facing the large audience to which he was well known, and sitting among a lot of music students and excitable old maids.

His reply, and the memories it awakens memories which have followed Poppas into the middle of Asia, seemingly, prompted this informal narration. A Gold Slipper Marshall McKann followed his wife and her friend Mrs. Post down the aisle and up the steps to the stage of the Carnegie Music Hall with an ill-concealed feeling of grievance.

Céline thinks it is East Liberty, but I think it is West Liberty. An odd name, anyway. It is a Bohemian quarter, perhaps? A district where the law relaxes a trifle?" McKann replied grimly that he didn't think the name referred to that kind of liberty. "So much the better," sighed Kitty.

"And care less?" she said for him, "Well, then we know where we are, in so far as that is concerned. What did displease you? My gown, perhaps? It may seem a little outré here, but it's the sort of thing all the imaginative designers abroad are doing. You like the English sort of concert gown better?" "About gowns," said McKann, "I know even less than about music.

"My views on women," he said slowly, "are simple." "Doubtless," Kitty responded dryly, "but are they consistent? Do you apply them to your stenographers as well as to me? I take it for granted you have unmarried stenographers. Their position, economically, is the same as mine." McKann studied the toe of her shoe. "With a woman, everything comes back to one thing." His manner was judicial.

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