What is your game ?" Percival smoked in silence, his gaze fixed on the moonlit line of trees across the field.
"And speaking of women, that reminds me," went on Fitts.

"When does my lord and master intend to transplant our crop of ladies ?" "What's that, Fitts ?" said Percival, called out of his dream.
"Ladies,--what about 'em?
When do they come ashore to occupy the mansions we have prepared for them ?" "Captain Trigger suggests next week." "What's he got to do with it?
Ain't you king ?" "He's got a lot to do with it, you blithering boob." "Besides," drawled Peter Snipe, the novelist, picking doggedly at the calloused ridges on one of his palms, "some of the women object to moving in the dark of the moon.

They say it's sure to bring bad luck." "There's quite a mixup about it," observed Flattner.

"Part of 'em claim it's good luck.

Madame Obosky says she never had any good luck moving by the light of the moon, and Careni-Amori says she doesn't blame her for feeling that way.