"Why!" I heard one exclaim to another, "I don't believe he noticed!"
"Didn't you notice?" asked my hostess.
I was cornered.
"Notice?" I asked. "Notice what?"
"That we didn't have champagne!" she said.
CHAPTER III
CLEVELAND CHARACTERISTICS
Before leaving home we were presented with a variety of gifts, ranging all the way from ear muffs to advice. Having some regard for the esthetic, we threw away the ear muffs, determining to buy ourselves fur caps when we should need them. But the advice we could not throw away; it stuck to us like a poor relation.
In the parlor car, on the way from Buffalo to Cleveland, our minds got running on sad subjects.