Girls' glances were wasted upon him while he tasted dubiously, succumbed to each new and delicious viand, and explored farther, secretly eager for more wonders.
"I know now why you brought me here," he sighed contentedly after the coffee was served.

"It wasn't to see the girls, either.

Grub's got possibilities I never dreamed about." Lowell smiled, sent a negligent nod toward a group that had just come in and recognized him, and tendered Johnny his tooled leather cigarette case.
"I never talk business until after I am fed," he observed.

"But now--since you have nothing definite in view except the making of money, suppose you listen to a little proposition I am going to make you.

It's rather confidential, however--" "My ears are open," said Johnny, "and my mouth is shut.