Presently he heard her voice within.
"Mother, the Haggertys have invited me for the last week in August.

I have half a mind to cut Tuxedo and go.

I like Bess Haggerty." "Well, you'll have to decide that, dearest.

Are they going to be at Tarrytown or Loon Lake ?" "Loon Lake, of course," came Berenice's voice.
What a world of social doings she was involved in, thought Cowperwood.
She had begun well.

The Haggertys were rich coal-mine operators in Pennsylvania.