“Shay, Profesh Burgush, that you?”
Dennie's father, half-drunken still! Oh, Shades of classic culture! To what depths in social contact may a college man fall in this wretched land!
“Shay! Is't you, or ain't it you? You gonna tell me?” Old Bond queried.
“This is Vincent Burgess,” the young man replied.
“Dennie home?” the father asked.
“Yes, sir,” came the curt answer.
“Who? Who bring her home? Vic Burleigh?”
“I brought her home. She is a good girl, too.”
In spite of himself, Burgess resented the shame of such a father for the capable, happy-spirited daughter.
“Yesh, Dennie's good girl, all right.”