Chapter 52

Phyllis, pink with excitement, and tripping occasionally over the longer words, read notice after notice with indefatigable zest, constantly substituting Booful and other endearing epithets for the more formal name in print, while her husband lay back, listening delightedly, and contributing exclamations, "By George, and it was William Winter who said that!"--"Say, that’s Huneker, isn’t it?" "A column in _The World_ isn’t handed out to everybody, not by a long sight." BOOFUL OPENS AT WALLACK’S THE …