"Well, it is strange how we chanced to fall to this girl, so beautiful and so helpless."
"Yes, she is beautiful, and I will say that there are thousands of undeveloped romances in New York at this very moment."
"Yes, that is true; if a man desires to get into an adventure of a strange character he can easily do it here in this great metropolis."
"Say, Ike, she is a beautiful girl."
"She is indeed. Have you fallen in love with her?"
"I don't know."
"I wish you'd find out," said Ike, with a very meaning smile on his face.
"Hello! is that the case, Ike?"
"Is what the case?"
"Are you dead gone so soon?"