Allie wore an expensive black lace dress, sleeveless and sufficiently low of neck to display her charms.

"Plain! A little too somber," Gray declared.

"She can afford colors, ornaments.

Jove! I'd like some time to see her in something Oriental, something barbaric.

The next time I'm in New York I'll select a gown--" Ma Briskow entered at the moment, greatly flustered and extremely self-conscious, and here, certainly, was no lack of ornamentation or of color.