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"
That suits me all right," said the girl. "There is a dandy comedy down at the
Castle."
And so they went to the picture show, and when it was over he suggested that
they have a bite to eat.
"I'll tell you," Edith suggested. "Suppose we go to Feinheimer's restaurant and
see if we can't get that table that I used to eat at when you waited on me?" They
both laughed.
"
If old Feinheimer sees me he will have me poisoned," said Jimmy.
Not if you have any money to spend in his place."
"
It was eleven thirty when they reached Feinheimer's. The table they wanted was
vacant, a little table in a corner of the room and furthest from the orchestra. The
waiter, a new man, did not know them, and no one had recognized them as they
entered.
Jimmy sat looking at the girl's profile as she studied the menu-card. She was very
pretty. He had always thought her that, but somehow to-night she seemed to be
different, even more beautiful than in the past. He wished that he could forget
what she had been. And he realized as he looked at her sweet girlish face upon
which vice had left no slightest impression to mark her familiarity with vice, that
it might be easy to forget her past. And then between him and the face of the girl
before him arose the vision of another face, the face of the girl that he had set
upon a pedestal and worshiped from afar. And with the recollection of her came a
realization of the real cause of his sorrow and depression earlier in the evening.
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