managing to pay my bills. That is more than some other people do in
this city."

"I should imagine it," said Lucy. "With all that row of shops on
Fifth Avenue! Oh, I know I shall spend all that I own in the first
week. And this hotel--why, it's perfectly frightful."

"Oliver has told you the prices, has he?" said Montague, with a
laugh.

"He has taken my breath away," said Lucy. "How am I ever to manage
such things?"

"You will have to settle that with him," said Montague. "He has
taken charge, and he doesn't want me to interfere."

"But I want your advice," said Lucy. "You are a business man, and
Ollie never was anything but a boy."

"Ollie has learned a good deal since he has been in New York," the
other responded.

"I can tell you my side of the case very quickly," he went on after
a moment's pause. "He brought me here, and persuaded me that this
was how I ought to live if I wanted to get into Society. I tried it
for a while, but I found that I did not like the things I had to do,
and so I quit. You will find us in an apartment a couple of blocks
farther from Fifth Avenue, and we only pay about one-tenth as much
for it. And now, whether you follow me or Ollie depends upon whether
you want to get into Society."