tch them, and
when I have to substitute an article of diet for the thing they've
been used to, it's awfully hard to get them to take it."

"I should think it might be," Dick said. "It's true about people who
have worked in New York all summer, though. I have--and you have."

"Oh! I'm all right," Nancy said.

"So am I," Sheila said, "and so is Monsieur Dick, _n'est-ce pas_?"

"_Vraiment, Mademoiselle."_

"Father isn't very right, though. Even when Miss Dear has all the
beautiful things in the most beautiful colors in the world cooked for
him and sent to him, he won't eat them unless she comes and sits
beside him and begs him."

"He's very fond of _sauce verte_," Nancy said hastily, "and _apricot
mousse_ and _cepes et pimentos_, things that Gaspard can't make for
the regular menu,--bright colored things that Sheila loves to look
at."

"He likes _petit pois avec laitue_ too and _haricot coupe_, and
_artichaut mousselaine_. Sometimes when he does not want them Miss
Dear eats them."

"I'm glad they are diverted to some good use," Dick said.

"I've been looking into the living conditions of my waitresses." Nancy
changed the subject hastily. "Did you realize, Dick, that the
waitresses have about the unfairest deal of any of the day laborers?
They're not organized, you know. Their hours are interminable, the
work intolerably hard, and the compensation entirely inadequate.
Moreover, they don't last out for any length of time. I'm trying out a
new scheme of very short shifts. Also, I'm having a certain sum of
money paid over to them every month from my bank. If they don't know
where it comes from it can't do them any harm. That is, I am not
establishing a precedent for wages that they won't be able to earn
elsewhere. I consider it immoral to do that."

"You are paying them an additional sum of money out of your own
pocket? You told me you paid them the maximum wage, anyhow, and they
get lots of tips."

"Oh! but that's not nearly enough."

"Nancy," Dick said dramatically, "where do you get the money?"

"Oh, I don't know," Nancy said, "it comes along. The restaurant makes
some."

"Very little."

"I could make it pay any time that I wanted to."

"Sometimes I wonder if you are in full possession of your senses."

"Caroline is affected that way, too. I feel that she is likely to get
an alienist in at any time. She is so earnest in anything she
undertakes. She and Billy have had a scrap, did you know it?"

"I d