Our friends, as I have hinted, warned us against Atlantic City. They said:
"You won't enjoy that place."
Or, varying the emphasis in a way very flattering to our reputations for cultivated gentility:
"You won't enjoy that place."
Or, altering the emphasis once more, after we had explained apologetically that we went there on business:
"You won't enjoy that place."
When we persisted in going, they took it for granted that we wanted to argue with them. Then they closed the discussion with an emphatic insistence on the one word which had hitherto escaped them.
"You won't enjoy that place."
One friend, mistaking us for cynical students of the weaknesses and follies of humanity, varied the warning in another way:
"You won't," he said, "enjoy it now. It's not the season."