'And now I tell you to hustle. See?'
'Shall you want me to call myself Belmont?' Nina asked.
'I chose it because it was a fine ten-horse-power name twenty years ago,' said her father; and she murmured that she liked the name very much.
As Lionel Belmont the Magnificent paid the cabman, and Nina walked across the pavement into one of the most famous repositories of expensive frippery in the world, she thrilled with the profoundest pleasure her tiny soul was capable of. Foolish, simple Nina had achieved the nec plus ultra of her languorous dreams.
CLARICE OF THE AUTUMN CONCERTS
I
'What did you say your name was?' asked Otto, the famous concert manager.
'Clara Toft.'