"Say, the child likes to run around with celebrities. Why shouldn't it give her pleasure over the other girls from Miss Samuels's school to be seen out once in a while with Lester Spencer, their favorite, or Norma Beautiful? 'America's Darlings,' I see this week's Screen Magazine calls 'em. It's natural the child should enjoy it."'
"Let her enjoy; only, where it comes in I should have to sit across from him at supper three times this week, I don't see. Out of the studio, me and Spencer don't talk the same language. To-night, him and Feist would mix like oil and water."
"Does Feist know yet, Roody, you closed the deal on the Grismer estate?"
"Sure! I says to him to-day: 'Feist, with us for next-door neighbors of your country estate, together we own nearly half of Long Island.' Am I right?"
"Like I says last night in mamma's room to Etta and Sol, 'I was used to thirty-four rooms and nineteen baths from home yet!' Poor mamma—how she laughed! Just like before her stroke."
"Nothing, Rosie, not one hundred rooms and fifty baths—nothing I can ever do for you is one-tenth that you deserve."
"And nothing, Roody, that I can do for you is one-hundredth what you deserve."
"I sometimes wonder, Rosie, if, with all we got, there isn't maybe some little happiness I've overlooked for you."
She lifted herself by his coat lapels, kissing him. "Such a question!"
"So many times it comes up in the scenarios and the picture-plots,
Rosie, how money don't always bring happiness."