Marlow was
summoned back to New York last night, by business, quite unexpectedly,
and Mr. Dupont telegraphed me this afternoon that he was detained
there."
"It's curious," said Dorothy. "Mr. Rivington and my brother came on
Tuesday expecting to stay for a week, but they had special delivery
letters yesterday, and both started for New York. They would not tell me
what it was."
"Mr. Stirling received a special delivery, too," said Leonore, "and
started at once. And he wouldn't tell."
"How extraordinary!" said the hostess. "There must be something very
good at the roof-gardens."
"It has something to do with headwears," said Leonore, not hiding her
light under a bushel.
"Headwear?" said a man.
"Yes," said Leonore. "I only had a glimpse of the heading, but I saw
'Headwears N.G.S.N.Y.'"
A sudden silence fell, no one laughing at the mistake.
"What's the matter?" asked Leonore.
"We are wondering what will happen," said the host, "if men go in for
headwear too."
"They do that already," said a man, "but unlike women, they do it on the
inside, not the outside of the head.
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