"How is she ?" "Very well," said Hurstwood.

"Rather anxious about you though.

You'd better go out now and cheer her up." "I will," said Drouet, smilingly.
"Like to have you both come down and go to the show with me Wednesday," concluded Hurstwood at parting.
"Thanks, old man," said his friend, "I'll see what the girl says and let you know." They separated in the most cordial manner.
"There's a nice fellow," Drouet thought to himself as he turned the corner towards Madison.
"Drouet is a good fellow," Hurstwood thought to himself as he went back into his office, "but he's no man for Carrie." The thought of the latter turned his mind into a most pleasant vein, and he wandered how he would get ahead of the drummer.
When Drouet entered Carrie's presence, he caught her in his arms as usual, but she responded to his kiss with a tremor of opposition.
"Well," he said, "I had a great trip." "Did you?
How did you come out with that La Crosse man you were telling me about ?" "Oh, fine; sold him a complete line.

There was another fellow there, representing Burnstein, a regular hook-nosed sheeny, but he wasn't in it.

I made him look like nothing at all." As he undid his collar and unfastened his studs, preparatory to washing his face and changing his clothes, he dilated upon his trip.