"What are you talking about—rotten time?" Elkan protested. "The only thing is I feel so happy I didn't sleep a wink, that's all."
Kapfer jumped to his feet and slapped Elkan on the shoulder.
"Do you mean you're engaged!" he asked.
"Sure!" Elkan replied.
"Then I congradulate you a thousand times," Kapfer said gleefully.
"Once is plenty," Elkan replied.
"No, it ain't," Kapfer rejoined. "You should got to be congradulated more as you think, because this morning I am talking to a feller in the clothing business here and he says B. Maslik is richer as most people believe. The feller says he is easy worth a quarter of a million dollars."
"What's that got to do with it?" Elkan asked.
"What's that got to do with it?" Kapfer repeated. "Why, it's got everything to do with it, considering you are engaged to his only daughter."
"I am engaged to his only daughter? Who told you that, Mr. Kapfer?"