Mack
Who's she?
Grubby
A girl.
Mack
What girl?
Grubby
The girl that cleans. A lame girl. Her mother's the janitor. Have a seat. Somebody'll be along in a minute.
[And he resumes his magazine ... never completely abandoned. Mack, thrown upon his own resources, picks up one periodical after another, but Fortune does not smile. They prove to be "The Atlantic Monthly" ... "The Review of Reviews" ... "The Scientific American."]