The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns

nce. He had no dress-suit

dity. You and I are consistent in character; we are either

ipped into Shillitoe's, the young tailor who had recently set up

dress-suit

politeness that a dress-suit was out of the question; he had already taken more orders than he cou

?" said Shillitoe, trying to condesce

id Denry;

en shook his head. "No t

id Denry, glancing at the door precisely as he

not a native of the town, and had no ald

week Denry was being tried on. Shi

rp, a young mistress in that art. She was the daughter of a furniture dealer with a passion for the Bankruptcy Court. Miss Earp's evening classes were attended

one evening, when he was practising reversing and they were entwined in the attitude prescribed by the latest fashion: "Never mind me! Think about yourself. It's the same in dancing as it is in life-the woman's duty is to adapt herself to the man." He did