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Updated: June 17, 2025
I saw the girl's face from time to time. What a fool I had been not to ask her name! She could easily have refused, and yet as easily have granted the request. At any rate, I had permitted the chance to slip out of my reach, which was exceedingly careless on my part. Perhaps they she and her uncle frequently dined at Mouquin's; I determined to haunt the place and learn.
If I had not gone idly into Mouquin's cellar for dinner that night, I should have missed the most engaging adventure that ever fell to my lot. It is second nature for me to be guided by impulse rather than by reason; reason is always so square-toed and impulse is always so alluring.
"Because, fair lady, Fromkin wouldn't let me get in with a crowbar. He'll never be able to pronounce his t's right, and when he's dressed up he looks like a 'bus-boy at Mouquin's, but he can see a bluff farther than I can throw one and that's somewhere beyond the horizon, as you'll admit. Talk it over with us after dinner then?"
"There's your chance, Kitty," said Burlingame. "Am I beautiful?" asked Kitty, demurely. "Lord love the minx!" shouted Cutty. "A corner in Mouquin's." "Rain or shine." After Cutty had departed Kitty said: "He's the most fascinating man I know. What fun it would be to jog round the world with a man like that, who knew everybody and everything.
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