Sit down; I'll be through with this in a moment." He sat himself back from the desk, and Brooks asked, "Can't you go out to lunch with me ?" "Isn't time yet." "Hardly, that's so," Brooks admitted, looking at his watch.

"I happened to have business in this neighborhood and thought I'd drop in.

Say," he added in a lower tone, and nodding his head toward the door of the adjoining room, "who is she ?" "The literary reviewer." "She's a stunner.

What's her name ?" "Miss Drury." "You might introduce me." "She's busy." "Probably she'd go to lunch with us." "She refuses to go out with any one." "Hasn't been here long, eh ?" That was the floorwalker's idea.

"Well, I must get back, if you can't go with me.