Jason gave her five dollars. “You were absolutely right,” he told her, “everything is building up beautifully.”
He went over to Miss Gellert. “I’ve just left your escort in a room of meditation,” he said. “He asked me to look after the rest of the evening with you.”
She didn’t seem very surprised. “Did he?” she said.
“My name is Howard Jason,” he went on. “I have a lot of money and this is my first night in New York. What shall we do?”
She thought for a moment. “Have you really got a lot of money?” she said at last.
Jason assured her gravely that he had.
“Have you plenty on you right at this moment?”
“At a rough guess I have about a couple of thousand bucks, all in very nice new notes.”
She sighed. “It must be nice to have as much as that.”
“Can’t we get off money?” Jason asked. “Why the interest in money? Don’t you think it is a trifle sordid talking about money as we are?”