"The Meteor between St. Louis and Oklahoma" "It is news to me about the legal status of Harriet. So far as I am concerned I would just as soon have her and the next one reckoned as mine; it is only for Barry's sake that it is worth while to do things."

"This time I shall stay with the Rypins (you remember him in Russia?). I stayed with them in San Francisco and had a slight affair with Mrs Rypins, from whom however I heard nothing afterwards until she turned up at my debate in New York."