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and a very perspicacious woman, said, “Well, she certainly is giving Mr. Charlie Hook a good time.”

I said, “What?”

She said, “Oh, I don't want to be a mean gossip. He's got a right to have a good time if he wants to, but I never thought I'd live to see the day when I saw Charlie Hook dancing around the Barclay dining room with Mrs. Rosenberg of New York and having such a good time. Who was the other gentleman who was there with Miss Dickerman?”

I said, “Well, I don't know.”

She said, “Well, Charlie got another gentleman and Miss Dickerman was along.”

Then Mrs. Watt came to me very seriously. Mrs. Watt was a nice, good, kind, Scotch extraction American labor leader's wife, with a good Scotch background, sober as an owl, high principled, very Ten Commandmentsy, and all that kind of thing - very nice too, with a very high standard of public behavior. She came to me and said, “I think it's quite terrible. Mrs. Rosenberg doesn't seem to realize that everybody is here for business. She gets these men to go out dancing in the evening and go to dinner. Of course, my husband doesn't go as he's with me, but all these other men here are at loose ends. They haven't got anything to do. Their families aren't here. She's been taking that