[This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald]@TWC D-Link bookThis Side of Paradise CHAPTER 3 31/54
"Hurry, old dear, tell 'em we're here!" "Tell 'em to play 'Admiration'!" shouted Sloane.
"You two order; Phoebe and I are going to shake a wicked calf," and they sailed off in the muddled crowd.
Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, jostled behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched. "There's Findle Margotson, from New Haven!" she cried above the uproar. "'Lo, Findle! Whoo-ee!" "Oh, Axia!" he shouted in salutation.
"C'mon over to our table." "No!" Amory whispered. "Can't do it, Findle; I'm with somebody else! Call me up to-morrow about one o'clock!" Findle, a nondescript man-about-Bisty's, answered incoherently and turned back to the brilliant blonde whom he was endeavoring to steer around the room. "There's a natural damn fool," commented Amory. "Oh, he's all right.
Here's the old jitney waiter.
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