I knew of course that she played and that Aileen and a lot of the others did, but I hadn't given the matter a thought.

One heard nothing but bridge, bridge, bridge.

I was sick of the word.
"But I found they played poker.

Polly and Aileen, Alice Thorndyke, Janet Maynard, Mary Kimball, Nick Doremus, Rex and one or two other men who could get off in the afternoons.
"I never had dreamed any one in society played for such high stakes.
Janet Maynard and Mary Kimball could afford it, but Polly and Alice and Aileen couldn't.

Still they often won--enough, anyhow, to clean up and go on.