Carlotta waited for Norman Melton in the lounge of the Ritz Hotel. They had arranged to have luncheon together.
Ritz HotelShe had accepted the invitation more because it had afforded her an avenue of escape the night before than because she was really anxious to see him again.
She had managed to stave off his proposal of marriage, but only by artificial means that made her feel cheap and insincere.
1 refuse to talk seriously,” she had said at Ciro’s Club. “You look serious this evening and I feel all sorts of ponderous statements are coming from you. Forget them, let’s just be gay, let’s be happy and irresponsible.”
Norman had a sixth sense in an approach to a deal.
It had indeed stood him in good stead in the past and now it helped him to control his impatience that urged him to cont
