If you ask me, I want a double Daiquiri." "Make it four." The crowd whirled and changed and shifted.

They were mostly from the colleges, with a scattering of the male refuse of Broadway, and women of two types, the higher of which was the chorus girl.

On the whole it was a typical crowd, and their party as typical as any.

About three-fourths of the whole business was for effect and therefore harmless, ended at the door of the cafe, soon enough for the five-o'clock train back to Yale or Princeton; about one-fourth continued on into the dimmer hours and gathered strange dust from strange places.

Their party was scheduled to be one of the harmless kind.