“It’d be topping, we’d hit it off like anything.... But you must have a bit of beef tea or something. You need picking up.” She giggled. “You old dear that’s just what I do need.”
“Well how about making tracks for Calgary? I know a fellow there who’ll give me a job I think.”
“Oh let’s go right away. I dont care about clothes or anything.... Roy can send those things back to Lord & Taylor’s.... Got any money Buck?”
A flush started on his cheekbones and spread over his temples to his flat irregular ears. “I confess, Al darling, that I havent a penny. I can pay for lunch.”
“Oh hell I’ll cash a check; the account’s in both our names.”
“They’ll cash it for me at the Biltmore, they know me there. When we get to Canada everything will be quite all right I can assure you. In His Majesty’s Dominion, the name of Buckminster has rather more weight than in the U.S.”
“Oh I know darling, it’s nothing but money in New York.”
When they were walking up Fifth Avenue she hooked her arm in his suddenly. “O Buck I have the most horrible thing to tell you. It made me deathly ill.... You know what I told you about the awful smell we had in the apartment we thought was rats? This morning I met the woman who lives on the ground floor.... O it makes me sick to think of it. Her face was green as that bus.... It seems they’ve been having the plumbing examined by an inspector.... They arrested the woman upstairs. O it’s too disgusting. I cant tell you about it.... I’ll never go back there. I’d die if I did.... There wasnt a drop of water in the house all day yesterday.”
“What was the matter?”
“It’s too horrible.”